~November, Domino High School, Shortly after Battle City…~
A smile worked its way across Yugi's face. For now he was the winner of the Duelist Kingdom Championship (Well, his other self (Who was now officially named 'Yami') was, but still). Joey paid for his sister's eye surgery. And Yugi was finally able to be friend his other self. But the drag was, not even a champion could escape education.
"'Sup, Yugi," He heard the familiar, optimistic voice of his best friend call.
Yugi turned to his right and saw the on approaching figures of Joey, Ryou, Tea, and Tristan. He waved at them and quickly shortened the distance between him and his friends. "Good morning, guys," Yugi greeted when he got to them. They all greeted back just the same. He yawned a bit before asking. "Any thing new?"
Joey smiled down at his friend. And boy, did he have something to tell him. "Well, I heard that a 5'3 senior that goes to Domino High is now the Winner of Duelist Kingdom and Japan's most famous duelist."
Yugi covered his mouth as he yawned again. "Tell me something I don't know…"
Joey pretended to ponder for a minute. "Alright. How about this: I heard that the Runner Up's sister's surgery was a huge success…"
Yugi beamed at the news. He chuckled softly and he ran up to Joey and gave him a huge (As huge as Yugi's arms would let him) bear hug. "That's great!"
Joey felt better when Yugi hugged him. He chuckled and ruffled Yugi's crazy hair, making it a tad bit more crazier than before. "I know."
"Hey," Yugi protested. He quickly got out of Joey's reach and began to try and fix his hair (or at least made an attempt at it). Yugi opened his mouth to say more when a short freshman came running towards them. His face was red from running and his breath was in short, wheezing gasps. "You alright," Yugi asked.
The Freshman nodded quickly, taking another moment to catch his breath. When he did, he looked at all five of them, his face filled with a mixture of excitement and a bit of tiredness. "Did you hear?!"
"Hear what," Tea asked.
She arched her eyebrow as the freshman began to point towards the direction from which he had came from. "New students," The Freshman huffed. His other hand went up to his black haired head and began to scratch it nervously. "Both of them are girls."
"Girls," Both Joey and Tristan shouted. Already, both of them had hearts in their eyes. Tea groaned, already knowing what was going to happen.
Joey quickly walked over to the freshman, a determined look was plastered on his face. "Now tell me… are they hot or not?"
The freshman looked confused for a second or two, but he said. "Y-Yeah. One's really shy but also really cute. The other one has an Egyptian accent and is super model hot!"
Joey and Tristan were already liking these two girls. A SUPER cutie… AND …A Super Model gorgeous girl… AT THIS SCHOOL!!!!!!! They thought that they must have died and went to heaven. Joey looked at the freshman straight in his brown eyes and demanded. "Where are they now…"
The freshman pointed wearily towards the front of the school. "Their over by the water fountains. But be careful, last time I saw, The model wasn't there. But the cutie was being targeted by Isamu…"
That was bad. Real bad.
And that's all Joey and Tristan needed to here. Both of them were running before the others could move a finger. Both of them were shouting. "Don't worry, our beautiful princesses! Your knights in shinning armor are coming to save you!" The other three groaned but followed the two skirt chasers, leaving a bewildered freshman in the dust.
Yugi had nearly caught up with his two juvenile best friends when he heard the familiar deep, characteristic, confident voice of his other self say. "Chasing skirts, are we, partner?"
The poor boy found his feet tangle into knots as he was startled. He face planted himself in the ground, a little groan escaping his chest. He slowly began to get back on his feet when he heard Yami begin to chuckle. Yugi looked at him and couldn't help but smile. Yami was leaning up against a wall, his arms folded across his chest, and his right foot was bent back, with his foot on the wall. Yugi felt a bit sad when realized how tall Yami was. Yugi rose at 5'3, and Yami was about 5'9. Yugi brushed some of the dirt off his uniform and looked at Yami, who was watching him as if he just had his laugh of the day (Which he just did). "It's not like that! I was just following Joey and Tristan-"
Yugi was cut off by Yami chuckling again. Yami calmed a bit, winking his left crimson eye at Yugi. "Go on, Partner. Before you get left behind again."
The tips of Yugi's ears and cheeks began to warm. He opened his mouth to say something, but he was startled/cut off by Ryou yelling, "Come on, Yugi! We're almost there! I think there is a fight going on by the water fountains…"
"A fight," Yugi called after him. "But aren't the new girls over by the water fountains?"
"Yeah," Ryou called back over his shoulder.
Yugi turned back to tell Yami something, but he wasn't there. He made a slight pout face, but took off running towards the loud noises of teens shouting and whooping. After much running, he came to a stop at a huge bunch of students crowded in a circle around the fountains. He quickly spotted his friends and rushed over to them.
"Alright," Both Joey and Tristan shouted, moving, pushing, and shoving students out of their way. "Move over! Make way! Step aside! Let us through!" Yugi, Tea, and Bakura just followed the two silently.
When all five of them made it to the center of the crowd, they heard the familiar, annoying, high pitched voice of the school's "Queen Bee" say, "Well, well, well. Look what we have here. A lost exchange student."
The "Queen Bee's" name was Isamu. She was your average head bitch. The head cheerleader, choir, and home economics chef of the entire school. Her brownie-brown hair was straightened, and it flowed all the way down her back. Her school uniform was freshly cleaned, not a single wrinkle could be spotted. Her sky blue eyes were glaring as if she was just challenged by someone way down on the social food chain.
Her group of followers, three brown headed girls that followed Isamu everywhere she went as if she were their master and she had them all bound by leashes. The brown eyed, boy cut haired girl was Yuri. The hazel eyed, curly haired one was Hari. And the grey eyed, long and wavy haired one was named Vidalia.
"Yeah, are you lost," Vidalia teased, snorting as she began to laugh. She doubled over as more snorts escaped her.
"Vidalia," Isamu snapped. "What have I told you about laughing?!"
Vidalia quickly closed her mouth, stopping her laughter. "Not to laugh."
Isamu nodded, then turned her attention back to who ever it was that she was glaring at. Yugi began to get a little bit angry. How could Isamu pick on a poor new girl like that? What wrong had she done to her? Yugi sighed when he knew the answer to his own question. Because, just like any bitch, Isamu hates any girl who is cuter, or more prettier than she.
"A-Ayumi went t-to get our class schedules," The group of five heard a girl reply, her voice just barely about a whisper. Yugi looked a little ways past Isamu and saw the most cutest girl he had ever seen in his life! On boy, now he could see why Isamu was targeting her. The cute girl had short, kind of cut like a boy's, chocolate brown hair. Her bangs were longer than her hair and sort of cupped her face. She was wearing Domino High's girl's uniform, along with a light brown jacket. Yugi looked into the girls eyes, a beautiful amber that held worry as well as fear in them.
Isamu laughed, as well as her gang of followers (Except for Vidalia, who only snickered into her hand). "I highly doubt she will be back. You know what I think? I think she ditched you."
The Amber eyed girl cowered away from Isamu a tiny bit, adding more fuel into the fire.
That's when Yugi noticed something on the girl's head. It was a really shiny gold, and in the shape of a bow. The loops of the bow were big and almost made it look like the girl had animal ears. But the big thing that he noticed was right in the middle of the two loops, where the "knot" was, was an eye. An eye that looked exactly like one of the millennium item eyes.
Could it be… Yugi thought as he peered at the eye a bit more. Another Millennium Item that's not one of the original seven?!
"Say," Isamu began, her eyes locked onto the girl's bow. "That's a really pretty bow you have on. You know what, I could use that for an up coming picture for the news paper," She scoffed, flipping her hair a little. "Of me, of course!"
The Amber eyed girl blinked, not sure how to react. "T-Thank you, I guess. My grandfather gave it to me b-before he passed away."
Isamu sneered, narrowing her eyes. "I don't care. I want it." She snapped her fingers loudly and Yuri and Hari went over to the poor girl and grabbed her arms roughly, causing her to drop her book bag. "Give it to me," Isamu said. "And I'll let you go. I you refuse, however, I will beat you."
The amber eyed girl looked like she on the verge of tears. "B-But I cant! I-it's the only thing I have left of m-my grandfather!"
Isamu growled, bringing her right fist back over her head and punched the poor girl square in the left cheek. "Wrong answer…"
Warm, fresh hot tears rolled down the girl's face as blood trickled down her left cheek and onto the cement. Blood also began to roll down the side of her mouth, obvious that she had bitten the inside of her mouth when Isamu punched her with her hand with all her sharp rings. She girl was now shaking violently, she sniffed as she cried harder and harder. The pain in her cheek almost unbearable. Yet, even with the wound, she still looked cute. So Innocent. So pure. So Adorable.
"Ayumi-i," The girl wailed helplessly, her tears now pouring down in bucketful's, going into her open gash on her left cheek. Yugi and the others felt useless and bad for the poor girl. Yugi could feel his other self start to stir inside the millennium puzzle.
"Shara," A female's voice bellowed across the school. Yugi could feel his other self watching as well, waiting for the right chance to come out. Students began to scream and jump out of the way as a rapidly approaching figure came towards them. People 'oohed' as the figure literally jumped over Isamu's head and landed doggie style right in front of (who everyone figured now was named) Shara.
The girl, presuming the one named 'Ayumi', was glaring at Isamu. A strange, but powerful aura was coming off of Ayumi, striking everyone who was with in three yards of her. The sense of their inner feelings began to erupt inside them, boiling and showing as if they had been there all along. Those who were really mad on the inside began to look angry, those who were depressed rather than what they looked like on the outside began to look upset and gloomy. It was as if they were showing how they really felt about themselves and or others. Like…they couldn't help but act like their real selves…the ones that were dormant on the inside of their hearts.
They were all showing who they really are.
Ayumi stood up protectively in front of Shara, watching Isamu like a bird of prey watching its next victim. Yugi looked at her, and began to feel his cheeks grow warmer the longer he stared. She. Was. Beautiful. No, not just that, Smoking Super Model Hot … Her hour glass body fit well in the schools uniform, her tannish skin, she rose at 5'5...maybe… short, but good for her structure. Her hair, oh god her hair, went all the way down to her mid back, each strand wavy and well kept. The color, Yugi noticed, was almost as strange as his was, but his still caked it. The right side of her hair (Her right, not anyone else's) was black as pitch, and her left side was a bright crimson red. A green headband suddenly became noticeable on top of her head.
But one thing that Yugi noticed was that Ayumi had two wrist bands on each of her wrists. Both were midnight black, but the one on her right wrist had metal spikes jabbing out of it and the other one on her left wrist had a picture of a chibi fox. Yugi pondered about that for a second, shrugged it off, and continued his previous task.
When Yugi went looking for her eyes, he began to fluster even worse than before when her eyes locked on his. They were beautiful, deep pools of emerald that shined just like a diamond under the rays of the sun. But they held danger and anger, like a sunset, beautiful to look and gawk at, but deadly to keep staring at for too long. And Yugi couldn't break away from her spell. Then, for just a split second, he could feel Yami staring at her too, as if his other self had just had a sudden realization. Ayumi's eyes looked concerned for a second, but she then turned away from Yugi, wanting to deal with a bigger fish (Poor Yugi).
And Ayumi was absolutely beyond pissed off. But before she decided to take it out on Isamu, she turned back towards Shara and asked as nicely as her anger would, "Are you alright?" Relief ran across her face when Shara nodded a little bit, as much as her cheek would let her. She nodded her head in confirm/relief, turned back to Isamu and began to growl. "You. Did you do that to her?!" She demanded, pointing at Shara.
The whole crowd nearly overly dramatically gasped when Isamu began to back away a tiny bit from Ayumi. Her followers followed suit." Y-yeah. So what if I did? What do you care? You ditched her."
What a horrible choice of words. "Really," Ayumi sneered. "And why, may I ask, gave you the right to hit- scratch that- punch her?"
Isamu bit her lower lip, trying to find a reason. "Well, she wouldn't give me her bow. Even after I asked her nicely." As she talked, her eyes wavered down to Ayumi's neck. A beautiful gold choker of an eye glistened in the sun's rays. The eye had a striking resemblance to that of the Millennium item's eye. The interesting part was that at the edges of the eye, they curved outwards then inward at the very tip to form a heart shape on both sides of the eye. It was almost as if they were wings in the shape of heart's on each end of the eye. On top of the eye were three teardrop shaped "eyelashes", all upside down so that the round part was pointing up. And lastly, on the bottom of the eye, were two swirls that looked like the swirls on the bottom of the millennium puzzle's eye. Now, Isamu wanted that choker. "You know…how about we do a bit of a trade…you know…like an eye for an eye?"
Ayumi arched her eyebrow, folding her arms across her chest. "And… what exactly did you have in mind that you wanted to trade for?"
Isamu raised a shaky finger and pointed at Ayumi's choker. "How about your choker."
"Ahh…" Ayumi pretended to nod her head in understanding. "Alright," She lifted her hands up to her neck and began to fiddle with the "latch" on the left side of the eye (Ayumi's left, not Isamu's). An idea struck Ayumi. "Hey, would you mind helping me get the latch? It appears to be stuck"
Isamu was hesitant at first, She could be tricking me… she thought. But after a second of two she shrugged it off and approached Ayumi with great caution. As soon as she touched the choker, a chilling shock went from her fingers, up her arm, and all the way down her spin. It was then she realized her mistake. Before she could do anything, Isamu's bottom jaw felt like it was struck by a metal bat by a professional baseball player who was swinging for the fences. Her teeth sank into her tongue, she lost her balance and fell flat on her back.
The crowd gasped as Ayumi brought her right foot up and stepped, no stomped, on Isamu's throat, cutting off her air ways. "Listen here, you filthy, pathetic, low life, good for nothing retch," Ayumi spat coldly at the cheerleader. More of Ayumi's weight went to her right leg, nearly closing her air ways completely as she bent down on purpose to get in Isamu's face. "If I ever see you look, threaten, talk, or even think about hurting Shara ever again…believe me, I'll make sure your face is in the newspapers. But it won't be for the reason you want it to be…" Isamu had never been so scared in all her life. Ayumi put more pressure on Isamu's throat, cutting off her air completely. "Have I made myself clear?"
Isamu nodded as best as she could, her face was now a dark purple. Ayumi scoffed, removing her foot off of Isamu's throat. She gasped as if she was just taking in air of the first time in her life. But, unfortunate for Isamu, Ayumi wasn't finished. Ayumi jumped into the air, did a front flip, and half way through the flip, she stuck her right foot out all the way and slammed it down right on Isamu's stomach. The cheerleader screamed in agonizing pain as tears flew from her eyes. Ayumi grinned, got up, and brushed off all the dirt from her uniform. She turned back to Isamu, who was now wallowing in pain on the ground. "Hey, there you go. groveling in the ground and dirt like the good little pig that you are."
The whole crowd burst into laughter as Ayumi went back towards Shara and helped her to her feet. "Come on, let's go back towards the main office. I think the infirmary is somewhere near there."
The weeping girl looked up at Ayumi, her eyes barely noticeable through all her tears. "B-but what about y-your leg?"
"Hmm…," Ayumi looked down at her right leg, seeing a long, deep gash that ran from the bottom of her knee cap all the way to the top of her ankle. "Huh. I must of done that while I was running to you." Ayumi looked over at the bike stand that was in the direction she had come from in the beginning. "Stupid kick stands…"
Shara then began to clutch her cheek as a wave of pain erupted from it. "L-lets go, Ayumi."
Ayumi groaned but followed Shara towards the front office, fighting their way through the crowd. Yugi and his group were in shock/amazement. The new girl had just totally kicked Isamu's ass!!!! You don't know how many people wanted to do that for a long time. Take Yugi for example, he hates her for tripping him down the stairs and saying "no midgets allowed"-
"She had it coming to her," Yami cut in Yugi's trance, looking down at the fallen "Queen". He shook his head. "Shame…"
"O-other me," Yugi clutched his racing heart. "I didn't see you there!"
Yami looked down at Yugi, a small chuckle escaping his lungs as he winked at his partner. "Am I that invisible?"
"No! I was just-"
Yami chuckled again. "I'm kidding, partner," Yami looked over to his right and took a glance at the clock. "You better head back to class, before you end up being late, again."
Before Yugi could protest, Yami was gone and he could vainly sense someone shaking his shoulder gently. "Yugi," Tea said to the zoned out kid. "We need to get going." All Yugi did was just nod and follow tea and the others all the way to class.