(Before we start know that I'm skipping some episodes either due to their unimportance like the dueling monkey and whatnot or because they can be mentioned as having happened off screen like the Bastion vs Chazz – as it happens the same just with Bastion being offered the Dorm Upgrade due to his good grades and still winning and Chazz still running off)

Naruto: Duelist of Numbers

Chapter 7

Seeing a crowd outside the card shop wasn't that odd a sight but, given it wasn't the day new card packs came in, it made him a bit confused as he walked there with Serenity. "What's all this about?" he asked, noticing Bastion was near the outside of the crowd.

As he looked over the crowd he noticed a kid with spiked up reddish brown hair in a Ra Yellow jacket dueling against Syrus.

Syrus seemed to have Jetroid on the field while the other guy had two face down cards on the field.

"His name is Dimitri, a Ra Yellow student dueling Syrus for the last ticket to see the deck of the King of Games" Bastion explained, pointing up to the posters all over the walls of the card shop.

"Wait Yugi's deck is really here?" Serenity asked, curious as she had seen his deck in action during her brief moments of being along for Battle City when she was younger.

"Well minus the God Cards but yeah they are dueling for the last ticket" Bastion explained before looking over at them. "By the way, do you two have your tickets?" he asked as Naruto nodded, reaching in his jacket to hold out two tickets.

"My father made sure to send them to me, one for me and one for Serenity since we did so good at our tag duel" Naruto said, smiling at Serenity as he patted her on the back, making her blush as she took the ticket with a happy smile.

"Thanks Naruto" she said, happy she got to enjoy this school event before they turned their attention back to the duel.

"I activate the spell card Heavy Storm, which destroys all spell and trap cards on the field which activates the effects of my Statue of the Wicked cards upon destruction!" Dimitri explained, summoning two Wicked Tokens to the field. "I then tribute them to summon my Ancient Gear Golem!" he continued as Naruto watched as a very familiar monster showed up on the field.

"Huh, didn't know there was another Ancient Gear user in this school" Naruto said a bit surprised as Bastion nodded.

"That is because there isn't. Dimitri is someone who copies other decks and uses them. He gets really into it, even acting like those he copies" Bastion said, making Naruto frown a bit as he had no problem with things like that it did seem quite odd in a sense.

"Now Ancient Gear Golem, finish this duel with Ultimate Pound!" Dimitri declared, making Naruto see a bit of Crowler in him, as Syrus smiled a bit.

"I use Jetroid's effect, which allows me to activate Magical Cylinder, reflecting the damage back at you!" Syrus revealed as Ancient Gear Golem's fist made out of air went through one cylinder and out the other, directly into Dimitri (*1) and dropping his life points down to zero.

"Yeah I did it!" Syrus cheered as Naruto weaved his way through the crowd.

"Great job there Syrus" Naruto said, smiling as he ruffled the smaller boy's hair, making him chuckle before he seemed to remembered something.

"That's Bro! Oh yeah, one second!" Syrus said, quickly running over to grab the ticket from Tomoe. "I'll be taking that! No hard feelings right?" Syrus asked, smiling over to Dimitri before he ran back over to Naruto.

"I can't wait to see Yugi's deck with you Bro! I got to make sure my camera has film!" Syrus told him before quickly running through the crowd, leaving them behind.

"Well I'm glad to see him excited" Naruto said with a chuckle before the crowd started to disperse.

"What's with that Dimitri guy? He's a Ra Yellow but he lost so easily!" one student said, not even trying to hide it as they crowd grew thinner.

"It's because naturally, all his battles are complete garbage! He'll be demoted for sure since all he can do is copy others!" another student said as Naruto turned to glare at them, which seemed to get the crowd to disperse quicker.

"Don't mind them. Come on, we're all unlucky at times" Bastion said, smiling as he went over to offer him a hand to help him up only for Dimitri to slap his hand away.

"Shut it! What could someone like you understand when you're practically in Obelisk Blue with your defeat of Chazz Manjome only a few days ago!" Dimitri yelled, referencing the recent 'Dorm Upgrade' duel Bastion did with Chazz.

Though even when Bastion won against Chazz he stayed in Ra Yellow until he felt he was at that level, at least not until Bastion dueled against his Xyz monsters.

Dimitri, visibly upset, stood up on his own and ran away from them.

As Naruto watched he frowned, feeling bad for the guy as he understood his frustration as while he had all his cards he use to not be able to use them. Back then he always felt a bit odd when dueling and his dad had told him he just hadn't found where he stood.

'He just really needs to find himself rather than try and copy others' he thought with a bit of a sigh.

"Naru~!" a familiar voice sung out before he felt someone collide with him, his sister's arms wrapping around him as she rested her head on top of his. "I've been looking for you mister!" she said, a pout visible in her tone.

"What's up Mirajane?" he asked, unfazed as his sister literally did this kind of stuff to him all the time growing up.

"Ever since Crowler leaving I've become the basic dorm leader of Obelisk and with that comes so much more work! But! Also some cool benefits, such as I can invite you and some friends of yours like you two and Alexis and Syrus," she said, noticing they weren't here "to see Yugi's deck before everyone else.

"Really? That is so cool, thank you Mirajane!" Serenity said with stars in her eyes with a smile as Mirajane smiled and moved over to hug her, nuzzling her face against the top of Serenity's head.

"You are quite welcome. Now I can't let you touch it but you can watch it as it is loaded into the pages that are set up to let people automatically turn them like at museums" she explained as they nodded, understanding the restrictions.

"I'll tell Alexis, you tell Syrus. Okay?" Mirajane asked as Naruto nodded. "Good, I'll message you when it's ready for you all to come over and you can tell the others. Until then, au revoir~" Mirajane said, giving him one last hug before she left them.

"Well, I guess we have something to do tonight" Naruto said with a smile as the others nodded. "I'll let you know when we are heading over so be ready I guess" he told Bastion with a chuckle before the bell signaling the start of the next class was soon.

"Yeah I'll see you guys then" Bastion said before they all hurried off to class, all of them excited for the special event.

-Later that Night-

By the time night had rolled around Naruto, along with Serenity and Syrus, headed towards the academy. As they smiled as they saw Bastion waiting for them, Alexis having messaged them that she was going to wait inside alongside Mirajane given his sister was her dorm leader.

"Hey, sorry to keep you waiting it took Syrus a while to find his camera" Naruto told Bastion with a chuckle. "Though thankfully my sister told us we didn't have to really rush" he added as Bastion waved it off.

"It's fine, I just got here myself. Shall we head inside?" Bastion asked before they heard a throat clear behind them, making them freeze as they turned around to see Ms. Hibiki behind them, arms crossed and an eyebrow raised.

"I was wondering where you all were going when I heard you all sneaking out" she said, looking them over as Naruto stood up and cleared his throat.

"Wait Ms. Hibiki we were invited by my sister so it isn't like we were sneaking in" he told her, a bit nervous as the look she gave him as she walked towards him reminded him of someone he knew back at home.

He continued to worry as she stopped in front of him before her look turned to a smile. "I know, I was invited by your sister as well. I was just messing with you" she said, nearly making him fall to the floor as she patted his shoulder.

"Ms. Hibiki! That's mean! We were really scared" Serenity said with a pout as Ms. Hibiki chuckled with a nod.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist myself" she laughed a bit, showing off a somewhat prankster side of her that made Naruto like being a Slifer Red even more given his own prankster nature. "Come on, best not to keep Mirajane waiting" she added, motioning for them to follow as she walked ahead of them.

"Your Dorm Leader is quite different from mine I have to say" Bastion dryly said, a bit caught off guard by it.

"Yeah but she's nice and its refreshing I think" Naruto commented with a shrug of his shoulders before he started to walk after her with Serenity following him before Bastion helped snap Syrus out of his frozen state from the shock of Ms. Hibiki suddenly showing up.

"Oh good! You all made it" Mirajane said, smiling to them as they walked in as Alexis stood nearby, smiling to them as well.

"Took a bit longer on my account, sorry" Ms. Hibiki said as she smirked, still a bit proud of herself for messing with them.

"It's okay, I'm just glad you were able to make it" Mirajane told her, smiling as Naruto noticed that his sister and Ms. Hibiki had only been getting closer since she took over Crowler's role of dorm leader of Obelisk Blue.

"I was surprised when your sister invited me along to this but I'll never turn down a chance to see the deck of the King of Games" Alexis said, walking over to them with a smirk.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's get our first peek at it!" Naruto said, smiling as his sister nodded, motioning for him to go on ahead before he walked forward to open the double doors that led to the exhibit.

Though as he opened the doors he, and everyone else, widened their eyes in pure shock as the glass case that was supposed to hold Yugi's deck was shattered.

"What!? I just left the room seconds ago! I've been in here the entire time they were setting up! What were the guards doing!? How this could happen!?" Mirajane said, rushing past Naruto as she ran up to the display and started somewhat freaking out.

"If you were here this room the entire time I expect that someone was waiting for you to slip out" Bastion said, pointing up to an open window. "They were waiting outside, slipped in and out. I am though surprised that no alarms were tripped" he added before Naruto shook his head.

"Enough talking! This thief has to be nearby and given it is an island he doesn't have very far he can go. We need to all split up and find him!" Naruto said as Mirajane nodded, shaking off the panic and cleared her throat.

"Okay, if anyone finds them let us know immediately. We need to get this dealt with immediately" Mirajane said as they all nodded, Naruto leaping up and grabbing onto the window.

"I'm going to see if he left a trail, maybe see if something can help" Naruto said before he went through the window, landing on the ground on the other side and started looking around for signs of which way he went.

He paused through as a light peeked out from under one of his gloves before he took it off. '26? Well it does makes sense you'd want to help' he thought as he loaded the deck that held that Number, finding it a bit ironic in the situation.

'Okay, lead me to his deck' he told it, following it's guide the same way he did Utopia's back when Alexis was taken. He continued to follow his Number's directions before he arrived rear the ocean, noticing a familiar Ra Yellow student hunched over with a deck in hand.

"So it was you Dimitri, you stole Yugi's deck" Naruto said as Dimitri turned around. "I recommend giving it back now and I'll keep it quiet that you stole it but this is a once chance thing as my sister is in danger and I don't take that lightly" he warned him, taking his sister's safety above all else right now.

"Naruto Crawford, just who I was hoping would run into me" Dimitri said as he put Yugi's deck into a duel disk and activated it. "I refuse to return it as this is the ultimate deck I've been looking for! After researching Yugi Muto's dueling I…can reproduce 100% of his dueling!" he declared, making Naruto narrow his eyes at.

"You know nothing of Yugi's dueling! It isn't something you can copy! So stop it now and just return the deck or else I'm really going to get annoyed or worse, pissed off" Naruto said, glaring at Dimitri as spouting off like this was making his sympathy towards the teen from earlier today disappear.

"I won't lose to anyone! Not Kaiser and not you!" Dimitri said before he noticed Naruto gain a pigment of orange around his eye.

"Then duel me or shut up. I'm going to show you that having a deck doesn't mean anything if you don't have spirit" Naruto said as he drew his cards and put back on his glove. "If you lose you will give me back Yugi's deck but if you win you can keep it and I'll take the blame. Hell I'll even give you the deck Yugi made for me" Naruto said, looking Dimitri dead in the eyes as he widened his a bit at his reveal.

"Two decks of Yugi Muto, I'd truly be unstoppable! You might be Pegasus' son but you cannot defeat the King of Games!" Dimitri yelled as Naruto heard others arriving, turning to see that Bastion, Syrus, Serenity, and Alexis had shown up,

"Out of all of my duels with Yugi I only have gotten a draw once but you aren't Yugi so I'll be fine" Naruto said as he drew his first card and looked over his hand.

'Silver Gadget, Gold Gadget, Swordsmen of Revealing Light, Metalhold the Moving Blockade, and Marshmacaron. Perfect set up' he thought as he looked at Dimitri.

"I start and I draw" he said, noticing he had drawn Magician Navigation, keeping a straight face as he was beyond serious. "I summon Gold Gadget (4* 1700/800) in attack mode," he said as a small golden robot appeared in front of him "and because he was summoned I can special summon a level 4 machine type monster from my hand and I choose Silver Gadget (4* 1500/1000) in attack mode as well!" he said as a similar looking silver robot appeared beside the golden one. "I'll set down two face down cards and end my turn" Naruto finished, setting down Magician Navigation and Metalhold the Moving Blockade as he looked behind him to the others.

"Naruto what is going on?" Syrus asked, clearly confused as he looked over to Dimitri.

"Dimitri stole Yugi's deck and I'm getting it back" he told him, his eyes going back to Dimitri who smirked as he drew his card.

"Can you beat him?" Alexis asked, not questioning him but more making sure.

"Yes, he isn't Yugi, he can't use his deck like Yugi truly can" he said before Dimitri started his turn.

"I'll start out by activating Polymerization! I fuse together my Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts and Berfomet from my hand to fusion summon Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast (6* 2100/1800) to the field!" he declared as a two headed winged chimera appeared on the field with a mighty roar.

"Now Chimera attack with Roar of the King!" Dimitri declared as Chimera took a deep breath, ready to roar.

"I activate my facedown card Metalhold the Moving Blockade! By targeting any number of level 4 machine type monsters I control to special summon this card as an effect monster and I choose my two Gadgets!" Naruto said as a massive metal golem appeared behind him and the two Gadgets shrunk into themselves and went into the two chest slots for them. "This monster is counted as a level 4 monster with attack and defense equaling the attack and defense of the monsters equipped to it, making my Metalhold have 3200 attack and 1800 defense" Naruto said as the two gears started to glow, awakening the golem as it whirred to life. "He also has the added effect of where you can only target him for attack and as the effect target of cards" Naruto explained as Chimera turned towards it, ready to attack.

"I cancel my attack replay!" Dimitri quickly said, Chimera settling down as he frowned. "I end my turn" he added as he couldn't do anything against it.

"Then my turn, I draw!" Naruto said, looking to see Berry Magician Girl as he slipped it into his hand. "I start by summoning one card face down in defense mode" he started, setting Marshmacaron face down as it appeared beside Metalhold. "Next I attack Chimera with my Metalhold! Strike him down with Iron Crushing!" Naruto yelled, his Metalhold raising its fist before it slammed it down on top of Chimera, dealing 1100 points of damage (Dimitri: 4000 – 2900) to him.

"I activate my Chimera's effect! When he is destroyed I can special summon a Berfomet of Gazelle from my graveyard! I summon Berfomet (5* 1400/1800) to the field in defense mode!" Dimitri said, a red four armed monster appearing in front of him on one knee.

"Fine, then I end my turn" Naruto said before Bastion took a step forward.

"Be careful Naruto, Dimitri has a way of calling on the personalities of those he copies and uses their strategies better than you think" Bastioned warned as Naruto shook his head.

"Dimitri is no Yugi, he can try and copy all he wants but he won't be Yugi to even the slightest degree" Naruto told them, his eyes still on Dimitri as he drew his card.

"I draw and immediately set it down face down! I then activate Monster Reincarnation! By discarding one card I can add a monster from my graveyard back to my hand! I use it to get Gazelle back to my hand" Dimitri started, showing Gazelle before adding it to his hand.

"I'll then activate the spell card Swords of Revealing Light! For three of your turns you cannot declare any attacks!" he said as floating swords shot down from the sky, surrounding around his field and his monster. "With that I end my turn!" he added as Naruto nodded.

"I draw!" Naruto said, seeing he had drawn Dimension Guardian, which could be perfect down the line before he pulled out Berry Magician Girl. "Next I'll summon Berry Magician Girl (1* 400/400) in attack mode," Naruto started as a small girl with a soft pink magician hat over her soft orange hair with two fairy wings on her back and a tiny scepter in her hand "and because she was summoned I can add one 'Magician Girl' from my deck to my hand!" Naruto said, choosing to add Kiwi Magician Girl to his hand.

"Because you summoned a monster I activate the trap card Dark Renewal! This trap card allows me to tribute one monster on my side of the field and the monster you just summoned to special summon one spellcaster from my graveyard and because I can only target your Metalhold it will be used instead!" Dimitri declared as the red and gold coffin drew in his Metalhold and Dimitri's Berfomet. "Now come forth! Dark Magician (7* 2500/2100)" he said as the familiar monster appeared from the coffin in attack mode.

As the monster came to the field Naruto could feel the back of his hand gain '26' on it as well as his deck call out to it. 'Don't worry, we'll get him back' Naruto said, trying to ease his deck as he knew it was just as upset as he was at Yugi's deck being used by someone other than him.

"I'll set one card face down and end my turn" Naruto said, placing down Dimension Guardian as he stared down the Dark Magician while Dimitri smirked.

"I draw and immediately activate the spell card Thousand Knives, since I have a Dark Magician on the field, to destroy your face down monster!" Dimitri said, the literal thousand knives going into it, flipping it up to reveal what seemed to be a red macaron.

"Because you destroyed my monster it's effect activates, allowing me to summon two Marshmacaron (1* 200/200) to the field in defense mode" he said as two red cookies appeared on the field, one on either side of Berry Magician Girl.

"Oh how cute! Little cookies!" Serenity said with a smile as the cookie's gained a pair of eyes before smiling over at her, showing off their fangs similar to Marshmallon.

"Your cookies won't save you as you made the fatal mistake of leaving your Berry Magician Girl in attack mode, wide open for my Dark Magician! Attack her with Dark Magic Attack!" Dimitri yelled as his Dark Magician started charging up his magic in his scepter and fired off the orb of dark purple magic.

"I activate Berry Magician Girl's effect! If she was targeted for an effect or for battle I can change her battle position and special summon one 'Magician Girl' from my deck!" Naruto started before an apple appeared on the field.

"And I choose my Apple Magician Girl (3* 1200/800) to bring to the field" he added as the apple burst, revealing a girl with short black hair, wearing a red magician's hat with light pink wings on her back, mid-thigh high red boots and a strapless and sleeveless red and gold magician's outfit.

"Wow~ Naruto has girls like the Dark Magician~?" Syrus fawned a bit as he grew hearts in his eyes as Apple Magician Girl floated in front of Naruto. "Why didn't he show us them before?" he added with a pout, getting Serenity and Alexis to roll their eyes at it.

"Focus on the duel" they both said with a frown, making Syrus shrink a bit and quickly hiding behind Bastion.

"Your Apple Magician Girl will not save your Berry Magician Girl!" Dimitri made clear as the orb of magic collided into Berry Magician Girl, destroying her as Apple Magician Girl glared at him and the Dark Magician.

"It may not have but she will help take you down" Naruto said, putting his hand on his deck as Dimitri nodded to show he was done with his turn. "I'll draw and immediately end my turn" Naruto said, looking at Magician of Dark Illusion before he knew all he needed to do was wait as with three monsters on his field he'd be fine.

"Is your deck failing you? Is one magician girl and two cookies all you can muster? No more defenses?" Dimitri asked, drawing his card as he pointed to Naruto's Apple Magician Girl. "Now Dark Magician, destroy his Apple Magician Girl!" he declared as Apple waved her finger at her and an apple appeared in her hands.

"Apple Magician Girl is more resourceful than you think as I activate her ability! When she is targeted for an attack I can special summon one level 5 or lower spellcaster type monster from my hand and I choose my Kiwi Magician Girl! (5* 1800/1200)" he said as Apple Magician girl threw her apple into the air before it turned into a portal and a woman dropped down from through it.

The woman had long light blue hair with a teal colored twin horned magician hat, her outfit consisting of a full black outfit under her teal magician armor and a long teal staff in her hand.

"But Apple Magician Girl has an added effect that when the new monster is brought to the field that new monster is now the target to your attack and the attack of your monster is halved!" Naruto said as Apple Magician Girl fired a beam of red energy from her hands, taking Dark Magician's attack down to 1250 as it attacked Kiwi Magician Girl. Only she took her staff and blasted her teal colored magic through his attack and hit him directly, dealing 550 points of damage (Dimitri: 2900 – 2350) and destroying the Dark Magician.

"Don't look down on my monsters and don't get cocky. Yugi never got cocky" Naruto said making Dimitri glare at him a bit before he cleared his throat into his hand.

"So be it, your turn" Dimitri curtly said as Naruto drew his card.

"With Swords of Revealing Light on the field I can't do much other than set one card face down. Your turn" Naruto said as his drawn card was Metamorphortress, a perfect defense, before the swords shattered around him, the three turns now officially up.

"I draw and immediately activate Monster Reborn to return my Dark Magician to the field!" Dimitri said as the Dark Magician rose back up from the ground in front of him. "But he will not be around for long as I activate my quick-play spell, Dedication through Light and Darkness! Which by tributing one Dark Magician to special summon another magician from my deck! The Dark Magician of Chaos! (8* 2800/2600)" he said as the blue skinned black haired magician appeared in Dark Magician's place after a flash of black light.

"Now Dark Magician of Chaos, attack his Apple Magician Girl with Chaos Scepter Blast!" Dimitri declared as Dark Magician of Chaos blasted its attack into Apple Magician and destroying it, dealing 1600 points of damage (Naruto: 4000 – 2400).

"Because Apple Magician was destroyed I can add up to three Magician Girls from my graveyard to my hand so Berry Magician Girl returns to me" Naruto said, retrieving the card from his graveyard.

"But remember your Apple Magician Girl is banished due to being destroyed by my magician" Dimitri pointed out as Naruto slid his Apple Magician into the 'out of play' slot on his duel disk.

"And now I end my turn" Dimitri said, a smirk to his face as Naruto could feel his borderline cocky confidence peeking through.

"I draw and summon my Sentry Soldier of Stone (3* 1200/2000) in defense mode" Naruto said as a massive stone soldier dropped down from the sky with a loud crash before what looked like two massive stone knives crashed down beside him and it pulled them from the ground connecting them and transforming them to a dual sided staff with a half circle on both ends. "With that I end my turn" Naruto said as he might be playing defensively but all he needed was one card or one monster to get the ball rolling and the defense he had would keep him safe until then.

"My turn then!" Dimitri started as he drew his card. "And right away I will have Dark Magician of Chaos attack your Kiwi Magician!" he declared as Dark Magician of Chaos' scepter started to gather power.

"Not so fast as I activate my face down card Metamorphortress! By targeting one level 4 or higher monster I control I can special summon this card as an effect monster with 1000 attack and defense and then immediately equip it with my monster to gain its attack and defense" Naruto said as the ground rose up around his Kiwi Magician, growing in size until it was a massive stone golem with two towers on its shoulders as Kiwi Magician stood atop it, turning its attack from 1000 to 2800.

"Not only that, because I activated a trap during your turn I can now special summon my Magician of Dark Illusion (7* 2100/2500) in attack mode!" Naruto added, watching as shadows started to gather and what looked to be a Dark Magician made out of shadows, its eyes looking normal as it held a ghostly looking scepter, appeared standing in front of him.

"Fine, I replay the battle and target your Magician of Dark Illusion!" Dimitri decided as Dark Magician of Chaos fired its attack towards the Magician of Dark Illusion.

As the smoke cleared from the attack Dimitri, as well as the others behind Naruto, were shocked to see the Magician of Dark Illusion was still standing as this odd winged statue floated behind it and Naruto's life points went down by 700 (Naruto: 2400 – 1700).

"My Magician of Dark Illusion is still around due to my Dimension Guardian, by equipping it to one face up attack position monster I control it cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects but due to needing my monster to be in attack position I still get dealt damage" Naruto said as he was willing to take damage to keep his magician alive.

"Impressive, I end my turn" Dimitri said with a smirk as Naruto drew his card.

'Dark Magical Circle, we are getting there' he thought as now he just needed one last card to get what he needed set up for him. "Now Metamorphortress, attack his Dark Magician of Chaos with Tower Crushing!" Naruto ordered, the massive castle golem pulled back its fist to throw a punch at Dimitri's monster.

"I discard Kuriboh, stopping the attack and protecting my Dark Magician of Chaos!" Dimitri revealed, Kuriboh appearing and blocking the attack.

"You really have saved my life more times than I can count old friend" Dimitri said, as if truly believing he was Yugi.

"Shut up! You aren't Yugi Dimitri!" Naruto yelled, getting real pissed off as the man continued to act like this.

"Why is Naruto getting so angry?" Alexis asked with a frown, never having seen Naruto get angry yet and was a bit surprised.

"It's because Yugi really taught my brother a lot" a new voice said, them all turning around suddenly to see Mirajane crouched down behind them with a finger to her lips to tell them to be quiet.

"What do you mean he taught Naruto?" Serenity asked as she crouched down to talk to her, making Mirajane smile a bit at.

"Naruto met Yugi a bit during Duelist Kingdom where after they became even more friendly. Naruto hadn't really been taught dueling all too much and Yugi really got him into it and taught him a lot before Naruto also caught Kaiba's attention. They were close and when Naruto turned 16 not too long ago Yugi talked with our father to get this deck made with even some original brand new cards that I personally drew" she explained as due to the Millennium Eye their father hadn't really taught Naruto dueling until it was gone, which was also the time that the Numbers and Xyz monsters were made.

"So he's doing this to get his teacher and friend's deck back?" Bastion asked as Mirajane nodded.

"And he definitely will" she said as she motioned for them to continue watching the duel.

"I highly suggest you get these delusions out of your head" Naruto growled out. "I set one card face down and end my turn and due to my Metamorphortress having attacked it switches to defense mode" he finished with a slight glare, his golem transforming into a normal and massive castle behind him with 2200 defense points as he set Dark Magical Circle face down.

Dimitri looked a bit scared before he shook it off and narrowed his eyes back at Naruto. "I draw and activate Cards of Sanctity! This card lets us both draw cards until we have six" Dimitri started, drawing three cards as Naruto drew two, seeing Celtic Guard of Noble Arms and Magicians' Defense.

"And I activate Watapon's effect, which due to drawing it due to a card effect, allows me to special summon it to the field (1* 200/300)" he continued as a pink ball of fuzz appeared on the field. "I quickly tribute it to summon my Dark Magician Girl (6* 2000/1700) in attack mode!" he said as the familiar female magician appeared in the place of Watapon.

"Dark Magician Girl~ So cute~!" Syrus fawned, no longer caring about the looks from the girls around him. "I want Bro to win but I also want to root for her~" he said before Serenity stomped on his foot, getting him to yell in pain, cradling his foot as he hopped on one foot. "Ow! What was that for?" he asked as Serenity looked away with an annoyed look on her face while the others rolled their eyes at him.

"And my Dark Magician Girl gains 300 attack points for every Dark Magician in my graveyard, boosting her attack to 2300" Dimitri explained before smiling. "But I'm not done as now I banish my Kuriboh, a dark monster, and Watapon, a light monster, from my graveyard to special summon Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning! (8* 3000/2500)" he declared as a knight in gold and blue armor appeared, a shield in one hand and a curved sword in the other.

"First, Dark Magician of Chaos, destroy Metamorphortress!" he declared, the Dark Magician of Chaos destroying his castle and Kiwi Magician, banishing them both from play.

"Next Dark Magician Girl attack and destroy his Sentry Soldier of Stone with Dark Magic Burning!" he yelled as the Dark Magician Girl fired off a blast of pink energy, destroy his soldier.

"Finally, Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning attack and destroy one Marshmacaron with Lustrous Morning Slash!" Dimitri ordered, Black Luster Soldier slashing through the red cookie, destroy it. "And with it's second ability, if it destroys a monster in battle I can attack again, so destroy the second Marshmacaron!" he added, the Black Luster Soldier destroying the second one.

"With no other monsters on your field, next turn I just have to attack your Magician of Dark Illusion to deal damage to you. I end my turn" Dimitri finished with a smirk as Naruto stood unfazed as he drew his card, smirking on the inside as he saw it was Pot of Greed.

"I start by activating Pot of Greed, letting me draw two cards" he said, drawing and seeing Clear Kuriboh and one of the cards he was hoping for.

"And I too special summon a monster due to it being drawn! Only mine is a lot stronger than Watapon! And if you truly believe you are Yugi then you sure as hell will know this monster!" Naruto said as a golden circle appeared in front of him. "Rise up and stand beside your Ka! Palladium Oracle Mahad! (7* 2500/2000)" Naruto said as a man dressed in golden armor, white cape, and golden scepter appeared in front of him, his back facing Dimitri as he kneeled to Naruto before standing up and grabbing his scepter as he faced Dimitri. As Dimitri stayed silent, slightly narrowing his eyes, unable to talk which made Naruto smirk.

"But I'm far from done as I activate my face down card Dark Magical Circle!" he said, his face down spell card flipped up and the traditional magic circle that was behind the Dark Magician and other Magicians appeared around Naruto.

"This card lets me look at the top three cards in my deck and if one of them is a Dark Magician or a spell or trap card that has Dark Magician in its name I can add them to my hand" Naruto said, drawing three cards to see Final Geas, Contract Door, and the Dark Magician. "And look at that, I got my Dark Magician" Naruto said, smiling as he added it to his hand.

"Wait! You have a Dark Magician?!" Dimitri asked in shock as Naruto nodded.

"I told you this deck was made for my by Yugi, why wouldn't I have it? And trust me, I intend to summon it with my other face down card Magician Navigation!" Naruto declared as his last remaining face down card flipped up.

"This card allows me to special summon one Dark Magician from my hand and then one level 7 or lower dark spellcaster from my deck! So come forth my Dark Magician (7* 2500/2000) and my version of the Dark Magician Girl, Apprentice Illusion Magician! (6* 2000/1700)" he said as a portal appeared behind him and two monsters flew through it.

The first was a girl, somewhat short with tan skin, red eyes, and a dull blonde that almost looked like a dull platinum blonde in a pink and purple magician outfit. As she appeared she smiled and gave a peace sign as she twirled her wand before the monster beside her stood up, making her stop and stand at attention.

Naruto's Dark Magician was nothing like the one in Yugi's deck, his having pale blue skin, icy blue eyes, and white hair as while his trademark magician's outfit was the same design wise it was a dark, almost black, blue with silver lines.

"This Dark Magician was designed by Yugi and drawn by my sister. I had to defeat Yugi in a duel as he used this deck against me and it was only then that I got my draw against him" he said before motioning to his Dark Magical Circle. "And because I special summoned a Dark Magician I can now use Dark Magical Circle's second effect, letting me choose one monster you control and banish it so I choose to banish your Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning!" Naruto chose before the circle around him glowed and another one appeared around Black Luster Soldier before it pulled him down into it.

"Now with three level seven monsters on the field I will use them to take you down and build the overlay network!" Naruto yelled as the galaxy of the overlay network appeared between them and Mahad, Magician of Dark Illusion, and his Dark Magician flew into the center of it in beams of gold, black, and dark blue respectively.

"Writer of the ancient tomes, teacher of the Dark Magician himself, rise up and wield your unstoppable magic to turn the tides in my favor! Number 26: Legendary Magician of Dark! (Rank 7 2900/2500)" he declared before the overlay network exploded and through the dust Dimitri and the others say a figure stand up.

With a wave of the figure's hand the dust disappeared, revealing a man with white hair dressed in an elegant black and purple outfit with red insides, the number 26 on the front of his curved hat, and a silver scepter in hand with a large green gem embedded in it as three overlay units flew around it.

"Number 26 will be your downfall as I use one overlay unit I activate its effect, allowing me to retrieve one spell or trap from either of our graveyards" he said as one overlay unit flew into Number 26's scepter. "I choose my Pot of Greed but I didn't use its ability for that, I did it cause I wanted Mahad in the graveyard again" Naruto said, getting confusion and worry on Dimitri's face as another overlay unit flew into Number 26's scepter.

"The second effect of Number 26 allows me to special summon one spellcaster from my graveyard or deck to the field so return to me Palladium Oracle Mahad!" he said, a black portal opening from the ground, allowing Mahad to fly up from it and stand on the other side of Number 26 with Apprentice Illusion Magician on the Xyz monster's other side.

"Thankfully for you I can only activate these effects once per turn but bad for you as now that Dark Magician is Number 26's last overlay unit his last effect can be activated! By sending him back to my deck, on the bottom where he cannot be special summoned, Number 26 now gains 200 attack points for every card removed from play and I count six" he said, boosting Number 26's attack from 2900 to 4100 as he gained a powerful white glowing aura.

"4-4100!" Dimitri stuttered out in shock, in disbelief of how strong a monster Naruto had summoned in the matter of one single turn.

"Number 26: Legendary Magician of Dark, attack his Dark Magician Girl with Legendary Obliteration!" Naruto declared, Number 26 raising his scepter, the white aura around him gathering into the gem of his scepter before it fired off a very thin condensed beam of magic that, upon contact with the Dark Magician Girl, exploded in a massive white explosion dealing 1800 points of damage (Dimitri: 2350 – 550).

"You fool! Neither of your monsters are enough to finish me off! I will turn this around next turn!" Dimitri yelled as Naruto shook his head as the golden scepter of Mahad started to glow.

"Mahad is a magician of light and a powerful one that, if he attacks a dark monster, his attack is doubled. So Palladium Oracle Mahad, finish this duel with Shining Magic of Will!" Naruto ordered, Mahad leaping towards Dark Magician of Chaos, his attack boosting to 5000 as his scepter collided with Dark Magician of Chaos' scepter before a bright light started to glow and explode outward, destroying Dark Magician of Chaos and dealing Dimitri 2200 points of damage, more than enough to finish him off (Dimitri: 550 – 0).

As the duel ended, Dimitri falling to his knees Naruto looked up to Mahad, the man nodding to him with a slight smile before he disappeared and Naruto started to put the cards away, teleporting the deck away as he walked towards Dimitri.

"W-Why, even with the ultimate deck…I couldn't win. D-Do I really have no talent!" Dimitri cried out as Naruto crouched down, pulling out Yugi's deck and collecting all the other cards.

"It's not that, you did good and copying decks in of itself can be a valid style but you have to figure your own way of doing things" Naruto said, standing up as Dimitri looked up at him.

"What do you mean?" he asked as Naruto rubbed his chin as he thought over his words to figure out the right way of saying it.

"Copy but add your own flair I guess is what I'm trying to say. Try and figure out ways to throw people for a loop as if you copy entirely, especially copying well known people, people will be able to know how you work and how to counter your deck if you go with their strategies. Just work on finding a mix between yourself and your copy decks as you have a knack for it I guess" Naruto added as he turned and started to walk away.

"One look at Yugi's cards you were able to use it pretty damn well, you have talent but you need to find your own way of using others cards if copying is going to be your thing. Believe in your deck and cards, make things your own" he said, trying to lighten up now that he had Yugi's deck back. He could somewhat understand why he did what he did and while he didn't like it he wasn't going to really turn him in despite him putting his sister in danger. Getting the deck back was the main goal from the start anyways.

"Wow Naruto that was…really amazing" Alexis said, still in awe from the intensity of the duel and the cards Naruto used.

"Thanks, I feel a bit bad as I got really into it, a bit too much at times" Naruto said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment as he did get a bit too heated.

"It's okay Naruto, you were just wanting to get Yugi's deck back for Mirajane" Serenity said, the first to have noticed Mirajane had left before Naruto could have noticed she was there.

"Yes, we should really hurry back and tell your sister we got the deck back but are we?..." Bastion said, trailing off at the end to ask if we were going to tell her about Dimitri.

"No, we won't tell her about Dimitri as much as he does deserve some punishment. We'll just say we found the deck, most likely left behind once noticing people were out looking for it" Naruto told them while slipping the deck back into his pocket, the others following behind him as he made his way back to the exhibit.

After returning the deck, Mirajane and Ms. Hibiki not asking who stole it they got to see the deck be put into the pages. They even got some posters before they headed back to their dorms to get some sleep.

-Next Morning-

Naruto let out a yawn as he walked out of his room, still tired due to being kept up rather late last night due to everything that went on. He though paused as he saw Dimitri standing in front of the dorm, looking up at him somewhat nervous.

"I want to learn how to make it my own…since you use so many decks I thought…you could help?" Dimitri asked, a bit nervous as Naruto looked down at him, his arms resting on the railing as he ran his hands through his hair.

"Fine, come on up. I'll make some tea" he said as he figured he might as well try and help the guy find his way like Yugi did for him.

It would be what Yugi would do after all.

-Chapter End-

Pairing: Naruto x Alexis, Serenity, and four (maybe five) girls that are 'To Be Announced'

Now this number changed as in the start it was supposed to be three I just got confused back then and whatnot then the fourth was suggested from someone and it really clicked with me. The 5th is someone that again, someone suggested but unlike the last I'm still on the fence about so we shall see.

*1 = Honestly don't ask me how this works as Ancient Gear Golem stops all spell and traps from being activated when it attacks, both in the anime and in real life. I'm ignoring it as I'm not fixing a broken thing in a duel that I'm not writing in my 'duel format'

Now only some story notes

As I said at the start of the chapter because of me skipping the Bastion vs Chazz episode (as it still happens the same only with Bastion not being used as a ploy to get to Jaden) that means that the girl from the end of last chapter will show up in the chapter after this one.

Now Chazz still left due to the mix of loss to Naruto still had an effect with the loss to Bastion piling it on even harder. While the other Obelisk Blue didn't shun him due to losing to Naruto it still had an effect in general to Chazz in his head.

He'll still return from North Academy but he will NOT get the Ojamas, he'll get a deck like the one he has in the manga.

I hoped you liked the third Legendary Number to show up, Naruto will use other Numbers but because this is an archetype I made I like being able to slip them in you know?

And yes, before you ask, this is Yugi's DSoD deck. Mahad is included as Atem left it behind for Yugi to give to Naruto as while Atem didn't know what it was, he felt power in Naruto and wanted to help Naruto as well. Naruto learnt from both Yugi and Atem as well as Kaiba.

I'm on a roll, hence why this came out so soon after the next. Please don't ask me what I'm gonna update next as I'm not sure and I'm just going with the flow of what draws my attention.

I hope you all liked it

Until Next Time

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