6. Chapter 6 - Not a Game (1/2)

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yema's pov:

i smiled as i gazed at the beautiful starry sky. it was peaceful out, and i was flying through the sky on star-strike pendulum dragon. the night was super nice and-

"it's really pretty out, isn't it teacher?" sora's voice say from behind me. tensing up, i spun around and found sora sitting right behind me. i shrieked and slapped sora across the face. his head flew to the left before slowly twisting back to look at me, still smiling like some weird animatronic.

"teach me!" sora shouted reaching out with his hand. i just shuddered and landed nearby on a hill. i climbed off my dragon only to find a swarm of zombie sora's all chanting together as they climbed the hillside.

"teach me, teach me, teach me!" they chanted, walking towards me. i backed away slowly from the sora's until my foot slipped on the edge of the hill and i toppled off the hill. i winced,

acing for impact in 3, 2, 1,

"bing bing bing bing bing" my alarm clock rang. i immediately shot up in bed and smacked the sleep button. i grabbed my arms and shivered.

"guess it wasn't real," i thought, shuddering. "what a horrible nightmare"

i quickly got out of bed and got dressed a sky blue shirt with my gray jacket over it and a yellow skirt. i glanced at the mirror and quickly pulled my hair into pigtails. i walked out of my room and found yuko already walking down the hall, wearing the same clothes as yesterday. i wrinkled my nose

"are you seriously wearing the same outfit you wore yesterday?" i asked him, raising an eye

ow. yuko crossed his arms

"no," he said smiling "i just have a lot of the exact same outfit." he looked slightly amused

"i guess that's what really happens in anime," he said jokingly.

"anime?" i asked, tilting my head. yuko looked at me like i was an idiot

"you know, the thing we're stuck in?" he reminded me

"stuck in…" i muttered, tapping my cheek. yuko looked at me curiously

"did you…forget?" he asked slowly. before i could answer a cry was heard downstairs

"kids!" mom shouted "

eakfast"

"coming!" i shouted down, before jumping forwards and grabbing onto the pole and slid down the first story.

"eat up!" i heard my mom say

"did you pick up another stray one?" i asked jokingly, only to find sora sitting at the table eating pancakes.

"hey, teacher!" sora said, giving me a pancake filled smile

"sora?" i asked, surprised "why are you here?"

"he was wandering around out house, and i couldn't resist giving him something to eat," my mom said smiling. "isn't he your apprentice?"

"no!" i practically screamed, slamming my fist into the table so hard that the plates rattled. i quickly realized both my mom and sora were staring at me. i cleared my throat.

"sorry," i said quieter, "i mean…no!" i picked up my fork and knife and started cutting into my pancakes like a rapid wolf. yuko slid down the pole holding en (our little corgi) in his arms.

"morning!" he said, stopping when he saw sora. "hey, sora…"

"hi, yuko!" sora said cheerfully pouring more syrup onto his stack of pancakes. god, he was going to drown those things. "your sister makes amazing pancakes!"

"sister?" my mom asked surprised.

"oh, i'm sorry!" sora said, "you just looked so young and beautiful, so i assumed that…" sora trailed off when he saw my mom smiling.

"you're very kind," she said, "you can have more pancakes. here!" as she spoke, my mom grabbed yuko's stack of pancakes before he dug in and placed them in front of sora.

"h-hey!" yuko protested, dropping his utensils as his

eakfast was snatched away from him. i rolled my eyes

"here," i said, sliding my half-finished

eakfast in front of him "i'm full anyway" i had barely finished my sentence when yuko ravenously assaulted the

eakfast with his utensils. i rolled my eyes. at least i knew for sure we were related.

"what other flavors of syrup do you have?" sora asked still pouring maple syrup on his stack of pancakes. i sighed. somehow i could tell this was gonna be a long day.

"so is sora really at your guy's house?" yuzu asked as we walked to school.

"yeah" i muttered, kicking a rock "i don't even know how he tracked me all the way home!"

"teacher!" i heard sora shout from behind us.

"and he's been calling me that too," i said, turning around, only to find sora right behind me.

"how did you get there?" i shouted at him "no wait, scratch that, why are you following me?"

"i'm your apprentice," sora said, sucking on a lollipop. "anywhere you go, i follow"

"you're not my apprentice!" i said, lightly tapping his head, trying to drill the thought into his little candy coated, blue head.

"i insist!" sora said, smiling. i groaned inwardly.

"he doesn't get it," i thought.

"i know the feeling," my

other said, walking up from behind us. i glared at him

"stop that!" i mind screamed at the top of my mind-lungs. yuko winced like i screamed in his ear (which i suppose i kinda did)

"your duel was so interesting!" sora continued, still sucking on his candy "and your pendulum summon was so cool! i want to learn to do it!"

"well, you do need pendulum monsters to pendulum summon," yuko said, smirking.

"can you at least show me again?" sora begged me

"no," i said. when that approach failed, sora turned to yuko

"can you ask yema to do it?" sora asked yuko hopefully

"no!" yuko said. sora puffed his cheeks up over dramatically and turned to yuzu

"can you ask yuko to ask yema?" sora pleaded, giving her a puppy dog stare

"why me?" yuzu asked sora raising an eye

ow.

"well…" sora said thoughtfully, tapping his finger on his temple. "yuko might ask yema if his girlfriend asked him to. at this statement, both yuko and yuzu turned

ight red. i took it as an opportunity to slip away unnoticed from sora.

i made it a ways away before glancing back. i watched, amused, as yuzu smacked yuko over the head with her paper fan, creating a comical "whack!" sound. i lightly chuckled to myself. they were pretty cute together. i quickly darted into the doorway before sora saw me again.

"-and then divide the remainder by four" the teacher droned on "can anyone tell me the answer?"

i yawned and rubbed at my eyes. i glanced over next to me and saw yuko sitting behind a textbook holding two of his cards and muttered silent words to himself. i looked over to the left out of the window and saw… sora. he was hanging from a

anch upside down holding a pair of binoculars watching me. when he noticed me watching him, he waved. i glared at him.

"go away!" i mouthed at him.

"ms. sakaki, are you paying attention?" the teacher suddenly snapped at me. i jumped in my seat

"y-yes sir!" i said, looking back at the board. i heard a couple people snickering as my face turned a comical tomato red.

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i caught the soccer ball and kicked it back out into the field. i rubbed my eye and got ready to intercept another shot.

"woooo!" sora shouted from the sidelines "go teach!" i growled under my

eath.

"go away!" i shouted at sora, turning just as the ball sailed by me into the goal. i sighed, grabbing it again and hurling the ball back out.

i nibbled a little on the edge of my sandwich. i wasn't too hungry, so i was mostly just listening to yuzu talk about whatever was on her mind.

"wanna duel?" sora asked, suddenly popping out from behind us. i whirled around and shoved sora back into the bush he popped out of. i put my lunch away and got up

"let's move, " i said to yuzu, who didn't complain

i walked into my science class and sat down at a desk. i took a quick glance around and sighed in relief when i couldn't see sora anywhere. i slipped off my backpack and slipped it under the desk. at least, i tried. for some reason, it wouldn't go under. i glanced under the table and found sora crouching down there smiling. i didn't say anything, stood up, and switched desks.

"go away!" i shouted at sora for what felt like the millionth time. i hurried down the hallway and slipped into the girl's bathroom. i sighed in relief before the door opened. i blinked. sora was standing in the doorway.

"this is the girl's bathroom!" i screamed at sora, shoving him out of the door and slamming it shut

"he just won't leave me alone!" i said to yuzu, frustrated.

"cheer up!" yuzu said smiling, "why don't we have a duel?"

"okay, " i said thankfully. we had arrived at you show, and we both walked up the stairs.

"what's up guy-" i started to say, before noticing sora seated next to futoshi, yuko, and ayu. i groaned inwardly

"you're late," futoshi said

"yeah," ayu said "and you kept your apprentice waiting"

"he's not-" i began to protest before yuzu's father shuzou pulled me aside.

"is sora going to enroll in you show!?" he asked excitedly. i shoved shuzou away as gently as i could.

"he's not my apprentice!" i said crossing my arms.

"let's have duel!" sora suggested happily "then i can see your pendulum summon! it was so cool when i saw it last time! i wanna see it again!"

"why should i duel you?" i asked raising an eye

ow. sora looked at me with a pouting face and tears in his eyes.

"don't you feel a little bad for sora?" ayu asked me

"yeah, you should just duel him!" futoshi said

"oh come on yema!" yuzu said cheerfully "it's just one duel!"

"real duelists never turn down a challenge!" shuzou said passionately.

"pleaseeee!?" sora begged me

"fine!" i screamed. sora smiled and jumped in the air out of happiness.

"under one condition!" i said, pointing at sora "if i beat you, you'll stop stalking me and calling me "teacher"!"

"okay!" sora said, popping his lollipop back into his mouth "but if i win, you'll be my teacher!"

"wait, what!?" i said, but before i could protest, sora dragged me to the action field. the last thing i saw before the door shut was yuko still staring daggers at sora. he really hated that kid.

"this is so exciting!" sora said happily, jumping up and down

"ready?" shuzou shouted from the booth "action field on! wildest west!" the field began to change as it transformed into a deserted town in the middle of a desert. sora looked around unimpressed

"really?" he asked, unimpressed "this is boring! i hate boring things! do you have anything more interesting!?" shuzou looked puzzled

"well i guess i could-" shuzou started to speak, reaching for the keyboard again

"no-no-no-no!" i shouted at him, stopping him "this one's fine!"

"okay…" he said uncertainly. i looked over the field carefully.

"duelists will kick across the earth…" ayu began

"..and fly across the air along with their monsters!" tatsuya continued

"fix your eyes on the ultimate evolution of dueling!" yuzu and futoshi chanted.

"action…." they all began

"duel!" sora and i both shouted, activating our duel disks

yema: 4000 lp, hand 5

sora: 4000lp, hand 5