Cat: Hey guys! Here's chapter 11!

Rena: Sorry about the last chapter sucking so bad! I tried to make this one better but... Well, it's personal preference.

Cat: Thanks to everyone who's reviewed! And, if you don't mind, can you review again, please? :3

Rena: This story is in Yuzu's POV. Please give me some artistic licence. If i put some stuff that isn't in the anime in here, don't flame. There would be no point in reading, if it was just the anime in words.

Chapter 11- One with His Sword

"What a guy," Yuya stared through the glass. "In just one turn, he synchro summoned twice!"

After my humiliating defeat, I stood in the girl's bathroom for a couple of minutes, staring at myself and slamming my fists on the unit. After my moment of self-disgust passed, I downed a bottle of Sprite and joined the rest of the gang, who were hanging around the viewing window of the duel arena. For a second, I stared at Yuya's face, only to see Yuya. No purple hair or anything.

I heaved a sigh of relief. The haunting feeling was by no means gone but it was no longer clouding my vision. I genuinely hate being influenced by others but Masumi was right. I was making way to big a deal out of this. If this small tournament wasn't under such tight conditions, I would challenge her for a rematch. Maybe I would one day, who knows?

I slid in between Yuya and the kids, to stand in between them. They all smiled as I arrived, trying to cheer me up. I may have lost and I wasn't ecstatic but after a bit of alone time after the duel, I felt fine. I wasn't despairing or anything and I knew staying angry at myself was going to achieve nothing. I had faith in Gongenzaka, just like Yuya and the others.

Even though he was up against a ridiculous summoning strategy deck, I knew he wasn't going to go down easy. His deck was just like his personality; strong and stubborn. Extremely stubborn.

Yuya and I exchanged a knowing look as Gongenzaka advanced summoned Super-heavy Samurai Big Benkei. It was an awesome monster, with a ridiculous amount of defence points, higher than the LDS student's synchro's attack points. It was a very familiar sight. The only difference was that Yuya wasn't getting pounded by it.

Yuya pulled a face at the giant samurai. It was one of the banes of his duelling career, with its crazy effect. Even in defence mode, it can attack. Oh, and its defence points are also its attack points: 3500. Ayu and Futoshi cheered as a synchro monster took a tumble.

Then, after Gongenzaka ended his turn, Yaiba Todo summoned four monsters in one turn. Four! Did anyone ever tell him that three's a crowd? Four is a party? And to make matters worse, the forth special summoned monster was a tuner. Again.

Even thought that was bad news, the faces of the children was classic, I had to hide my giggles. Then, as I did that, I bit my tongue as another level nine Synchro monster appeared. Oh, and it was Gottoms again; the synchro that Gongenzaka had just destroyed.

"No way… The Gottoms he just defeated?" I asked, thrown into confusion. Did he have two of the same card? He could have made that a bit clearer.

"But Gottoms attack is 3100," Yuya tried to reassure us, still watching the duel. "He's no threat to Big Benkei." Trust Yuya to not care how a second one appeared, just that it had less attack points that Gongenzaka's defence.

"Hey, the synchro user's running!" Ayu pointed at the squirt running across the sword graveyard, brandishing his wooden weapon. I tugged on Yuya's shirt sleeve slightly. He glanced back at me and nodded, knowing what I was thinking.

"I activate Action Magic: Extreme Sword!" he announced, sticking the card in the disk. That didn't sound good. Yuya slammed his hand on the glass and stared fearfully. Yep, definitely not good. "It increases the attack points of one monster by 1000 during battle!"

A gigantic explosion shook the building as the attack hit. You could see nothing through the grey smoke.

"Big Benkei was…" I began, only to be interrupted by Yuya reminding me that our friend wouldn't take damage because his monster was in defence mode. Really, I may have lost my duel but did he seriously think I was born yesterday?

Then, the LDS student played a trap, dealing piercing damage of 600 points. So much for me being mad at Yuya. Turns out we were both born yesterday. Then, every member of You Show Duel School began to feel uneasy. Gongenzaka had fallen past the safety line of 1000 life points, putting him in red. Just one attack and it was over. Not just for him but for our school. And Yuya.

"Hey!" I pointed into the arena, grabbing everyone's attention. They all peered through, squinting at what I was pointing at. The mist from the explosion cleared, revealing… Big Benkei!?

"When Big Benkei was attacked, I sent Super-heavy Samurai Armaments Fire Armour to the graveyard," Gongenzaka explained. "By sending this card to the graveyard for the rest of this turn, it negates the destruction of one level five or greater Super-heavy Samurai!"

We all stared in awe. Where the heck did that come from? A new combo? That was pretty awesome, I had to admit. Gongenzaka was playing even better than I thought he would! However, Ayu was not convinced. "His defence went down by 800 points…" she whispered.

I listened into the reassurance that Tatsuya offered the young girl. We had to stay positive. And, hey, Gongenzaka wasn't down!

"An action card!" the girl yelled suddenly. I snapped my head back to face the duel. Damn, you can miss so much in a few seconds. The LDS student had caused an airwave to pick up an action card and send it floating towards Gongenzaka. Why would he give him an action card? For a second, the image of Yuya duelling Sawatari sprung into my mind, every action card he picked up was a trap.

"I will not move," Gongenzaka announced. The younger boys standing beside me yelled, as the opponent grabbed the card for himself. Oh great, another Extreme Sword. Gongenzaka was sent flying, hitting the ground but negating the destruction of his monster. His life points were at 100.

"Gongenzaka-kun!" I whispered, as we all watched in horror. I could just see us handing the school over now. The optimism that was with us earlier had mutated into anxiety, that hung in the room like one million flies.

The number of imaginary flies of despair doubled, as the synchro user managed to send both of Gongenzaka's cards in his hand to the graveyard, leaving him with little to no options.

"What should he do? If this keeps up, Gongenzaka-kun will definitely loose!" Ayu wailed.

"If only he had taken that action card!" Tatsuya sighed.

"Yeah! Why didn't he go for it?!" Futoshi yelled, bundling his pudgy hands into fists.

"No, this is fine," Yuya spoke, finally. I looked up at him (wait, please don't tell me he was taller!) and waited for an explanation. "This is how he duels," was all Yuya explained. Thanks for clearing that up.

He closed his eyes for a moment, thinking. Was he imagining the duel's outcome? Thinking about what Gongenzaka had up his sleeve? Remembering something? He and Gongenzaka went way back, almost as far back as I went with Yuya.

Then, in Gongenzaka's next turn, he summoned a monster that could be equipped to any Super-heavy Samurai, and raise its defence by 1200. After battling, he managed to deal damage, taking the LDS student's life down to 3000. There was still a massive gap between them but it was something.

"He did it!" the three children cheered.

"That's it, Gongenzaka!" Yuya shouted through the glass.

Then, the small duellist played a trap and once again managed to summon several monsters at once, even though it wasn't his turn.

"Monsters that you can summon whether it's your turn or not," Yuya's former opponent muttered from the other side of the small room. "The ability to turn the tides so explosively is what makes X-Saber decks so frightening!"

"It's rare for you to compliment someone else's deck," the girl who defeated me smirked at her fellow student. "Did losing make you weak?"

Ouch, that was harsh.

Sora watched the conversation of the LDS students with little interest, licking the lollipop he was holding. "With his life at 100 and with no cards in his hand, Gon-chan doesn't have a chance to win this, does he?"

"No, it's not over yet," Yuya said, still staring into the Action Duel. "He hasn't given up yet."

And so we can't give up on him, I thought, as we turned back to the duel, leaving the defeated LDS student to sob in the corner.

However, the synchro user, once again summoned back his tuner monster and synchro summoned a third Gottoms. I was really sick of that monster.

I genuinely thought it was over, as the opponent's first monster flew in to attack. However, Gongenzaka managed to avoid it by the skin of his teeth, as they say, by sending his equip monster to the graveyard and stopping the monster from attacking. However, to do so, he had to drop Big Benkei's defence points to 0.

I squeezed my eyes shut and buried my head into Yuya's shoulder. I didn't want to see Gongenzaka lose and I didn't want to see our hopes of keeping the school die. Yuya put his arm around me in comfort. "Remember, this is how he duels," he muttered.

"Battle! I attack Big Benkei with the first of my Gottoms!"

"That was what I've been waiting for!" the student fighting for our school announced. I looked up from the folds of Yuya's jacket to stare. Was he going to turn this around? Or was he bluffing?

He had activated a card effect from his graveyard and, ironically, it was one of the ones that the LDS student had sent there purposely earlier in the game, using Gottoms effect.

"When there are no magic or trap cards in my graveyard, I can banish this card to deal the difference from the current defence and the original defence of an attacked monster to my opponent!" he announced.

"Big Benkei's original defence is 3500," Tatsuya whispered.

"And now, it's zero!" Futoshi finished the other boy's sentence.

"So, that means, with 3500 points of damage…" Ayu trailed off.

"That means Gongenza-kun will definitely win!" they all cheered.

I couldn't help feel a small smirk tug at my face as Sora's lollipop hit the ground and shattered into one million pieces. That kid seriously needed to learn that he wasn't right all the time. "No way…" he said, completely awed. Now, he might think twice before calling the duellist 'Gon-chan'.

I grinned at my best friend, who was wearing a similar expression to the one that everyone was wearing. We had this duel in the bag. Our school was safe. "The conditions to pull off this comeback is to have no spells or traps in his graveyard. That's why Gongenzaka-kun didn't put in any magic or trap cards and made his deck with only monsters!"

"A deck constructed with only monsters?" Her Majesty listened into our conversation, pressing her face up against the glass, to get a closer look.

"That's beyond crazy!" Yuya's opponent stared.

I was already for my victory scream, as the red orbs rocketed towards the final LDS student. They were getting closer and closer and-

"I activate from my hand the quick-play magic: Saber Reflector!" he announced.

"No!" I slammed my hands down on the sill of the window. He was so close! The magic deflected the attack and caused no damage!

"That guy, he still had that option!?" Yuya cried, placing his hands on the glass, hardly believing it.

"…And the negated damage is reflected back to my opponent!" the synchro user revealed. "This is the end!"

"Yuzu-nee-chan, I can't watch!" Ayu sobbed, running over and digging her face into my skirt. I gripped her tightly, expecting the worse.

"I activate the effect of my Super-heavy Samurai Armament Big Bang from my graveyard!" No way, a turn around again? Man, that effect of Gottoms was really coming back to bite him. Because there was no magic or trap cards in his graveyard, Gongenzaka could negate the damage from the effect. I exhaled, realising that I hadn't been breathing for almost the entire turn.

"That's not all!" Yuya's friend shouted from across the room, as wind tried to sweep everything away. "Furthermore, it destroys all monsters on the field and deals the total level of all destroyed monsters times 100 to both players!"

"What!?" we all yelled, as lightning exploded around the room.

"But the total levels are… 33!" the LDS screamed in panic.

"That's 3300 points of damage!" Gongenzaka announced.

Then, the monster exploded in a massive orange light, filling the room. For seconds, you couldn't see anyone inside except the faded outline of the huge monsters, vanishing into thin air and the outline of Gongenzaka and Yaiba Todo for a couple of seconds, before they were sent flying in different directions.

Whhheeeeep! Both player's lifepoints hit zero.

Draw! The Action field announced, then vanished.

It was over.

Both schools claimed one win, one loss and a tie.

"Gongenzaka! Are you ok?" Yuya yelled, running over and helping the much larger person up into a sitting position and then, eventually to limp to the door.

"Chairwoman Akaba, you said you would take this duel school if you won the best of three," my father's voice announced over the overhead speakers. "But that result was a draw, so I kindly ask you to leave."

Yeah, you go dad! Get that creep outta here! I applauded my Dad's rare maturity and sensibility, in my head of course.

"What do you think you're saying?" the woman demanded, glaring up at my father. "This was a duel to settle everything! There can be no draws!"

I put my hands on my hips and stared daggers her. Chairwoman or not, this wasn't her school, so we could kick her out whenever we pleased. And she had overstayed her welcome by three duels.

"A tie-breaker!" she announced. "We will duel with our two students that have one victory. That's fine with you, isn't it?"

My dad began to protest but Yuya decided for him, stepping forward, his goggles placed securely over his eyes.

"Yuya," I sighed.

"It seems that you're up for it," Lady Creep-Fest smiled, glancing over at the victory of the LDS students, the fusion summoner who defeated me, Koutsu Masumi. Actually, now I want this duel to go ahead. It may seem nasty, but I want Yuya to kick her butt and get revenge for me-

"Wait!" an unfamiliar voice called. A man I had never seen before in my life appeared from behind the wall. Had he been there the whole time? "I will put an end to this."

Uh oh. Trouble.

Cat: Oh! It is coming! The duel with Reiji! Fun times!

Rena: Please review! And, todays' question! Out of all five Yu-Gi-Oh!s who is your all time favourite character? I won't judge at all! I'm just curious, as you know! Only one person! Can you narrow it down that much?