Chapter 3
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Thought / Dreams / Event from the past
[Voice from the past]
'Telepathic Voice'
"Spirit Talking"
-Telephone-
Letter
"Dialogue"
Emphasis
Dangerous Tone
"No, you need to put more strength into your swing." Yoh said as he shown Yugi the correct way to swing his sword, well, a wooden sword for Yugi.
It was Sunday morning, the day after they see Sugoroku off to Egypt. Yoh had been nagging Yugi about Yugi being reluctant to fight back, Yoh told the boy that it's alright to hate violence, but it's not alright to let people beat him up like the last time. So, Yoh taught Yugi how to defend himself using a wooden sword that he bought for the boy, he taught the boy the spot he need to hit in order to weakened his opponent so he could make a run after that, that way, Yugi wouldn't hurt people so bad and he could get away without getting beaten.
Of course it's not that easy if his opponent was not a single person, so Yoh ended up teaching Yugi to block an attack using his wooden sword and attack back with enough strength to knocked his opponents out in a single attack. They were still in the progress of Yugi mastering how to swing a sword in the right strength to knocked his opponent easily, or at least weakened them. It was only the third day since they started, but Yugi was progressing smoothly, thanks to Yoh's teaching talent.
Yoh was experienced in fighting using a sword, since his Guardian Spirit was a 600 years old Samurai, not that Yugi know about it, and he had enough knowledge to teach Yugi about swordsmanship. But Yoh was kind of a laze person himself, so he didn't train Yugi like Anna would train him, and certainly he refused to do more torture like that. He created his own method of training where he would be able to keep up with his skill and improve them but not overworking himself to death, a better way of training in his opinion.
Yugi groaned as he already felt his arm aching from swinging a sword so much, "Can't I take a break?" He asked Yoh as he tried to put more strength into his swing and failed to meet Yoh's expectation.
Yoh looked at his watch and nodded, "We can stop for today, you are still new, so it's better not to overwork your body." He agreed and stood up.
Yugi sighed in relief and handed the wooden sword to Yoh, but Yoh shook his head, "No, keep it, it's yours now." He explained to the confused expression Yugi wore.
"Oh, okay." Yugi said as he carried the wooden sword to his room.
Yoh was staying outside and enjoying the morning breeze instead of relaxing inside the house, he loved Nature, that was one thing that would never change in him.
Inside the house, Yugi had just finished taking a warm Shower when his phone rang, he took it and answered the call, "Hello?" He asked as he answered the call.
"Hey, Yugi!" Jou's voice rang from the other end of the call, "It's Sunday, so I and the gang are planning to go to the arcade, want to join us?".
Yugi grinned, "Sure, I will go." He said and Jou told him where they would meet up, "Okay, I will get ready then." He said when he looked at the clock, "See you later, Jou." He ended the call after that and went to the backyard.
Yugi arrived at the backyard of his house and looked at the spot he saw Yoh earlier, but then he looked around when he couldn't find Yoh there, "Yoh?" He called out when he still couldn't find the boy.
"Yes?" Yugi jumped when he heard Yoh's voice above him, he looked up to see a grinning Yoh sitting on the roof.
"What are you doing there?!" Yugi gasped in shock, "Get down! You could get hurt if you fall from that height!".
"Nah, I wouldn't." Yoh answered as he stood up and jumped down to land on a bit distance from Yugi, "I had fell from more higher place than your roof in the past and I was uninjured, so don't worry".
Yugi frowned since Yoh acted so careless and sighed, "I come here to ask you to come with me to the arcade." He explained before he grinned at Yoh, "We are going to meet up with my friends there and I will introduce you to them, they will be your senior in High School since you are new in here, they could help you out if you ever had trouble in school if I'm not with you".
Yoh smiled and nodded, "Thank you for your consideration." He said before he went inside to get ready to go.
After they both ready to go, Yugi lead the way to the arcade and went to their meeting place, on the place where the new game they played the last time they were in the arcade.
"Guys!" Yugi called out loud to beat the sound of the games.
His friends turned to him and grinned, "Hey, Yugi!" Jou greeted as he waved, he then noticed Yoh behind his friend, "Who is he?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
Yugi and Yoh arrived at the gang and Yugi introduced Yoh to them, "Guys, this boy here is Asakura Yoh, a new transfer student in our school." He then looked at Yoh and gestured for his friends, "Yoh, they are my friends. Mazaki Anzu, Otogi Ryuuji, Jounouchi Katsuya and his Little Sister named Shizuka, Honda Hiroto, Bakura Ryou, Kujaku Mai, and Malik Ishtar. Malik came from Egypt, that's why he was the only one having a tan skin in our group".
"Nice to meet you." Yoh said with a bow to them.
"Nice to meet you, Cutie." Mai said with a smirk, causing Jou to pout, "Calm down, it's not like I was hitting on him." She told Jou with a sigh.
Jou grinned, "Well, I couldn't help but worry." He then turned to Yoh, "Nice to meet you, just call me Jou since Jounouchi would be too long".
"Hello, I'm sorry if my Brother is a bit temperamental." Shizuka said sweetly with a bow to him.
"Hey!" Jou protested indignantly, causing the group to laughed at his antics.
"Ignore the moron." Malik said as he nodded at Yoh.
"Right, ignore the moron." Honda said as he offered a hand to Yoh, which accepted with a smile by Yoh, "I prefer to be called with Honda than my first name".
"Yo, there, Otogi Ryuuji, but call me Otogi please." Otogi said with a smirk, "By the way, you are a beauty even though you are a boy".
Yoh blushed, but Anzu waved her hand, "Hey, ignore him, he was just being stupid." Anzu greeted with a wave of her hand, "Nice to meet you, Yoh, you can call me Anzu." She said cheerfully.
"Hello." Ryou greeted him with a soft smile, "It's nice to have a new friend, I hope you would find it enjoyable here".
"I'm enjoying it, don't worry." Yoh answered with his trademark grin, even if his grin was not as cheerful as before due to the fact that he was still mourning about Hao's death.
"Well, now that the intro has done." Yugi started, "Let's have fun together!".
The group of friends grinned and began to scattered, Anzu and Shizuka were heading for the Dance Game while Jou, Honda, and Mai heading for the Shooting Game since they want to get the first rank, that leaves Yugi, Yoh, Malik and Ryou together.
"So, what do you want to play?" Ryou asked to Yoh.
Yoh looked around before spotting a racing car game, "I want to try that one." He said as he motioned for the racing game.
Malik grinned, "I want to play too! How about a battle, Yoh?" He asked excitedly, "The one with higher score wins, and the loser had to buy the winner a burger!".
Yoh chuckled and nodded, "Okay." He agreed and they head for the racing game, with Yugi and Ryou joined them.
They played and have fun for quite some time, Yoh was new to the game like that, but he was proved to be quite a challenge for Malik and Ryou, though he was nowhere near rivaling Yugi. Malik then make it more interesting for them by turning their simple race into a mini tournament, with the rest of their gang included in the tournament. But since their number was not even, Shizuka decided to become the referee and didn't participated in the mini tournament. They then decided who raced against who by Rocks-Papers-Scissors and then the winner will fight with the winner of the other pairs and so on until there's only two of them left to race in the final round.
The ones racing in the final were Yugi and Malik, they were just started their race when Yugi's phone rang, Yugi abandon the race to answer his phone when he saw that it was Ishizu Ishtar. "Yes, Ishizu?" He asked in the form of Hello.
-Yugi, I'm really sorry if I call at the wrong time.- Ishizu apologized in answer.
"Don't worry." Yugi assured him, "I'm in the arcade with the gang, you didn't interrupted anything, so don't worry about it".
-I'm glad.- Ishizu answered, -Yugi, are Malik and Ryou with you as well?-
Yugi nodded even though Ishizu couldn't see him, "Yes." He answered, "Is something the matter?".
-Yes, I would like it if you, Malik and Ryou could come to the museum now.- Ishizu told him.
Yugi's eyes widened, "Is there a problem, Ishizu?" He asked in worry.
Ishizu sighed, -I'm afraid that the answer to that question is yes.- She said in resigned tone, -The matter is better to be discussed face to face though, so would you mind come over?-.
Yugi nodded again, "Alright, we will get going now." He told her seriously.
-Thank you, I'm really sorry about this.- Ishizu answered, -I will welcome you at the entrance-.
"Yes, I understand." Yugi said and ended the call, he then turned to his friends, who were all looking at him in worry.
"Something's wrong, Yugi?" Ryou asked in worry and concern.
Yugi sighed, "I'm afraid so." He said, "Ishizu told me to come to the museum with Ryou and Malik".
"Well, why don't we all go together?" Jou suggested, "We could help you".
Yoh nodded in agreement, "If it's something that I can help you with, then I would gladly help you with your problem." He told his friend.
Yugi smiled at them, "Thank you." He said and he stood up, "Let's go then, the sooner we know what problem we have, the better".
"Sure." Malik agreed before swinging his arm around Yugi's shoulder, "But our battle will not stop here, after this problem solved, you and I will resume our battle to determine the winner." He said with a smirk as they started walking to the museum, "And after I defeat you, Yugi, you and the others are going to buy me the 1 Liter Ice Cream box we decided to be the reward for the winner of this small tournament".
Yoh laughed in carefree way, "You talked like we are in some kind of a war!" He told the Egyptian with a big grin, "You are interesting".
Malik showed Yoh a smile, "You are an interesting person as well." He winked, "For someone who never played a game before, you could win against most of us, you have talent in games. If you played more often, maybe you could win against Yugi who is the King of Games".
"King of Games?" Yoh asked curiously, "What is that?".
"The King of all games." Ryou answered for Malik, "The person who could win in all kind of games and wouldn't lose no matter who the opponents are, Yugi got the tittle after he won against Pegasus J. Crawford, the creator of Duel Monsters game".
Yugi halted his step a second before continuing without the others noticing, he was reminded of his Yami again, since it's Atem who won against Pegasus, not him.
They arrived at the museum and Ishizu was there to welcome them as she said earlier, "I'm sorry to troubling you." She said to them as they walked inside.
"It's alright, Ishizu." Jou assured her, "But what is this new problem?".
"It would be better if I it's not me who explain it." Ishizu said before spotting Yoh, "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't notice you earlier, my name is Ishizu Ishtar, Malik's Older Sister." She said as she offered a hand to Yoh, "Nice to meet you".
Yoh answered the offered hand and shook their hands, "Asakura Yoh. Nice to meet you as well, Miss Ishtar." He said politely.
"Just call me Ishizu is fine." Ishizu said before she opened the Staff only room and entered inside, the rest followed her silently. "Yugi and the rests are here." She announced as she walked to the back of the room.
Yugi, Ryou and Malik were the first to see them, they gasped and stopped short on their track. Yoh looked at them with confusion clearly written on his face, "What's wrong?" He asked them, he looked ahead and saw that there's 4 other people there.
There's a tall man with short brown hair and piercing blue eyes wearing fancy coat, a man who looked so much like Yugi but more mature looking, an albino man who looked so much like Ryou but more meaner looking, and a man who looked so much like Malik but more crazier looking. The ones who looked like Ryou and Yugi were wearing a strange clothing, while the one who looked like Malik was wearing a simple black muscle shirt and a blue jeans, and the three of them were having tanned skin.
The others noticed the sudden change in the three teenagers and looked ahead as well before understand why their friend froze like that. "Yoh, let's wait here." Jou said as he pulled Yoh to him, "It's their reunion, let's give them some privacy".
Yoh didn't understand, but when Yugi suddenly run to the man in the middle of the group, the one that looked so much like him, he understood somehow, that the two had known each other and held the other dearly to their hearts.
"Mou Hitori no Boku!" Yugi yelled as he run and tackled the man in a hug, "I missed you so much." He said with tears flowing down his cheeks.
The man smiled warmly at Yugi, "And so do I, Aibou." He said in a deep baritone voice, but filled with warmth as well.
Ryou took a few steps forwards tentatively, "Bakura?" He asked hesitantly.
The man who looked so much like Ryou looked at Ryou and smirked, "Heh, we meet again, Yadonushi (Host)." He said confidently with a bit of gruff voice.
Ryou's eyes watered as well as he walked to the man, "Bakura." He said softly as he pressed his forehead at the man's shoulder, "You are back".
Yoh looked at Malik to see if he had the same reaction, but was surprised when he saw the Egyptian looked at his look-alike with fear and anger filled his eyes, but he could see a dim hope in that eyes.
"You are back, Other Personality." Malik said with a glare, "Why the hell you are back? And how in hell you got a body?" He demanded harshly.
The Malik look-alike smirked, "Hello again, Other Personality." He said calmly.
To be continued . . .
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