Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ A New Path ❯ Reunion Part 3: The Gang's All Here ( Chapter 10 )

Kaiba held Rikku's duel disk in his hands as he browsed through her deck. After not only using Rikku's own Blue Eyes White Dragon, but fusing it together with two of his own to form Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon to defeat Rikku, along with his Lord of Dragons, he managed to win Rikku's rarest card: Her Blue Eyes.

"Hmph! A duelist as pathetic as you does not deserve such card." He said as he managed to take the Blue Eyes White Dragon card from her deck. "You should be honored. You're actually one of the few who I seen worthy enough to lose to my Ultimate Dragon. Here's some advice for future reference: Challenge me again and you'll be humiliated…" Kaiba then walked away, ignoring a glare from Tea, as he was then joined by his little brother!

"Way to go, Seto! You showed her! You're the coolest duelist I know!" Mokuba cheered as the Kaiba brothers went back inside.

Shinra approached Rikku as Tea, not exactly happy with Kaiba's sportsmanship, or lack thereof, goes back inside as well. It was bad enough that he got Rikku to accept the duel in the first place, but after the duel to treat her as if she's just some lower life form? Kaiba wasn't going to get away with that.

"Kaiba!" She shouted at Kaiba, just before he was about to enter the elevator.

He sighed in annoyance. "Look, if I want to waste anymore time with you geeks, I-"

"No, you look!" Tea grabbed Kaiba arm, which earned her a glare. But Tea didn't care. "Rikku could've turned down your challenge, and by all rights she should have. But she, like a true duelist gave it, her best shot!"

"So what? The important thing is that she lost and proven to be just another amateur in my way. Besides, compassion, pity, and all that other nonsense are only for the weak, like you."

"Weak? Weak!? Don't you even care about what you did? You crushed her confidence, and all you can say is 'so what?' I'm surprised that you haven't already ripped her Blue Eyes into two, like you did to Yugi's Grandpa's!" Tea reminded. "So why don't you rip it already and be done with it, you jerk? Isn't that why you challenged her in the first place?"

Kaiba just smirked, disregarding her comments. "Why I challenged her is none of your concern. Now if you excuse me, I have more important things to do."

"You're hopeless…" Tea muttered as she began to walk off, but then turned back. "Oh, allow me to let you in on a little secret! Rikku had a crush on you! That's right, Kaiba! Someone actually had a crush on you! I tried to warn you that you weren't worth it. That you're not even worth the time or money. But she didn't believe that. Even when she saw how much of a spiteful person you are, she thought that you were just misunderstood. Boy, how wrong she was…"

Kaiba glanced at Tea. "I'm sorry… I think you have me confused with someone who actually cares, let alone about what you think." He was then met with a slap across the face.

"Damn you…I hope your Blue Eyes gets thrown in the shredder…all four of them." She hissed as she walked back outside as Kaiba just smirked.

"Like that'll happen…" He said as he continued towards the elevator. Luckily, Mokuba had already gone ahead before Tea approached him. "Besides, I only have three now…" Thankfully, no one had found out more about his incident with the Syndicate which resulted in one of his Blue Eyes White Dragon cards being destroyed.

"Man…how long does it take an airship to arrive?" Joey wondered as he stood with the gang. "I tell ya, it's just like waitin' for a bus!"

"I hear ya, Joey!" Tristan agreed. "Ya think that they had engine trouble?"

"What I'm more worried about is Kaiba's duel with Rikku…" Yugi stated.

"Well I for one hope that this 'Kaiba' beats her!" Brother expressed his opinion openly. He was tired of his sister always beating him, let alone by her Blue Eyes White Dragon as he hoped that Rikku would finally be put into her place.

"I take it you're not too fond of your sister." Bakura asked.

"She just annoys me, that's all…" Brother stated.

"By getting in the way of you being together with your crush?" Buddy asked with a grin, which caused Brother to growl.

"So what? Yuna and I will be together!" Brother declares, which caused Yugi to blink.

"Yuna, as in 'Lady Yuna?'" He asked.

"Yep…and she's his cousin too!" Joey stated as Serenity looked at Joey.

"You still haven't answered my question from before. What's incest, big brother?"

Joey sighed as he then explained to his sister as brief as he could. "Let me put it this way: If you have an intimate relationship with a family member, it would be considered as incest."

"I see…" Serenity nodded. "So if you and I were to hook up, it would be considered to be incest?"

"Yes, Serenity…"

"One of the good reasons why you should find yourself a boyfriend…" Tristan explained as he was then close to Serenity. "There one guy who would love to go out with you. He's tall, tanned, and hand-"

"Tris-" Joey was cut-off by Serenity.

"I can handle it Joey." She said as she then looked at Tristan. "I like you Tristan, but only as a friend…"

Tristan head went down in disappointment, "I know, you're more into Duke Devlin. No need to say it."

"No no no…" Serenity corrected. "I feel the same way about Duke. In fact, I'm not sure who I want to be with. So could you please be a little less hands on?" She asked politely as she moved Tristan's arm from her shoulder.

He sighed, "Okay…"

Serenity turned to her brother. "You see Joey, I can handle myself."

"I guess yer right…" Joey nodded as he was trying to get over the fact that his little sister was growing up.

"I'm interested in seeing one of these airships." Yugi said.

"I think it'll be more interested to see the looks on Tea and Kaiba's faces when they see you." Bakura reminded him about the "fusion" with Yami.

"Right…at least I don't have to worry about who Tea likes better…"

"And ya got us to thank!" Joey reminded as he and Tristan grinned, which earned them both a glare from Yugi. "Like you hate it!"

"You should've asked for OUR permission, you know…" Yugi stated. Honestly, he didn't mind being fused together with Yami into one person. For one, he wasn't as short anymore as he was taller than Serenity. And two, he didn't need the Millenium Puzzle, which was shattered back to pieces, since he now inherited Yami's Shadow Powers, but kept the pieces just incase if someone should seek the powers *cough*YamiBakura*cough*. Besides, now he wouldn't have to worry about Tea only liking Yami and not him.

"Fusion?" Buddy overheard the conversation and became interested. He then asked Yugi, "You mean there were two of you?"

"Well…yes…I mean no…I mean yes…I mean…" He sighed, "It's a long story…"

"We have time." Buddy smiled. Joey, however, decided to pull Tristan aside so they could perfect a certain technique they recently learned.

"Umm…Joey you sure this is a good idea to do this now?" Serenity asked her brother. "After all, you remembered what happened last time."

"Don't worry. We have it covered!" Joey assured.

"Yeah Serenity, it's bound to work this time!" Tristan agreed as they got into position…

"Fu…"

"Sion!"

Before Joey and Tristan could finish, a red airship suddenly flew above them. As it stopped, it proceeded to land.

"It's so big…" Serenity admired.

"You mean we're flyin' on that thing?" Joey asked which earned nods from the two Al-Bhed.

Rikku was in the cabin area, still depressed over her loss to Kaiba as she looked over her deck. "Looks like Brother and Buddy are done trading cards…" She said to herself as she spread the cards out on the bed. "I bet Brother will be sooo happy to hear that I lost my card…" Her deck mostly consists of machine type of cards, as well as a few cards that support machine-based fusion monsters such as Two Headed King Rex which was a component for the Machine Fusion Monster Cyber Saurus. With her Blue Eyes gone, her strongest, rarest non-fusion monster was now Machine King, while in the category of fusion monster was her XYZ Dragon Cannon.

The sliding door opened as Mokuba walked in.

"Rikku?" Mokuba called out. Apparently after the duel, he had noticed Rikku's expression. Even he thought that Kaiba went too far, but it wasn't his fault that he's the way he is.

"What?" Mokuba heard Rikku's somewhat-whinny moan as he then went up the stairs to find the source.

Rikku looked over to see the young boy walking towards her. "What do you want?"

"You okay?" He asked.

"Why do you care? Why aren't you celebrating with your big brother?" Rikku responded with a hint of bitterness in her voice, which took Mokuba back. She wasn't the happy, perky young Al-Bhed girl he met earlier. But then again, you wouldn't be happy if you lost your favorite and most rare card in your deck, let alone, in addition to a few hurtful words, to your crush.

"I know that I cheer for Seto a lot, but it's not like I worship the ground he walks on and believes that he could do no wrong!" He replied.

"You might as well!" Rikku slightly snapped at him as she looked down. "He's mean, cruel, and a total ass! Tea was right all along! Wonder if he ripped my card up already, just like Tea said he would."

"Hey! Seto's not that bad…" Mokuba responded in defense of his brother, but then sighed. "At least he never used to be…"

Rikku blinked, "'He never used to be?' What do you mean?"

"Seto used to smile a lot back when we were younger." Mokuba explained as he then looked down. "That is until our parents died and we were sent to an orphanage. That was also the last day Seto smiled…"

"What happened?" Rikku was now interested in hearing the story how Kaiba became the…person he is today.

"We were then adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba…remember that man in the red suit you saw on the Transphere?"

"So that's who that was? Who was the kid next to him?"

"Our Step Brother, Noah. We just found out about him recently, but that's another story…" Mokuba sighed, remembering the whole Virtual World incident where Noah trapped them and the others for a duel for their bodies. He then continued, "When we moved into the Mansion, we found out what kind of person Gozaburo really was…let's just say that he wasn't exactly father of the year as he used to ignore me and worked Seto to the bone everyday…"

Rikku pulled Mokuba into an embrace, feeling sorry for the little guy as she could relate to him. Her mom had died while she was in a young age and as for her relationship with her father? Let's just say that it could be better, after she found out what he was doing. Because of him, Zanakand was now a tourist attraction, much to her's and Yuna's dismay. "Oh Mokie…"

Once again, Mokuba was taken back from Rikku's words. "Seto…used to call me that…before…"

"You went to an orphanage?" She finished for him.

"Yeah… I miss that…my brother smiling…" a small tear formed in his eye. "Sometimes I wished that everything was the way it was before we went to the orphanage. At least Seto would still be smiling…"

Rikku could feel the Celsius landing, and knowing Brother he would want to duel Rikku, feeling that he now had the cards to beat her. She had to great the guys, but she couldn't leave Mokuba by himself, not after they were having a good coversation. Besides, Tea and Kaiba were probably on the bridge so they could handle it.

"YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" A furious Kaiba roared as the door opened, it wasn't Buddy and Brother who he was screaming about, but rather their guests...

"What's the matter Kaiba? Surprised to see us?" Bakura asked as he and the rest of them board the Celsius.

"'Surprised' is only an understatement of what I'm feeling right now." Kaiba said as he saw the others board. "Oh no, not the dog and the monkey-boy, too!" He complained as Joey and Tristan responded by flipping the bird at Kaiba.

"So where's Tea?" Joey asked.

"She probably in the cabin." Buddy suggested, but then thinks. "Yuna said that she was only going to stay in Besaid for a short while, but I wonder if Paine is going to be staying in Besaid and Mushroom Rock Road longer."

"I don't care!" Kaiba responded with vigor. "We're going to Guadosalam whether you geeks like it or not! I'll take control of this ship if I have too!" He was then stuck on the side by a peeved-looking Rikku.

"You be quiet, you big meanie!" She hissed.

"A sore loser, are we?" Kaiba smirked. "Just because you were foolish enough to agree to the duel doesn't give you the right to act like a little baby!"

Brother was all smiles, finding out that it was Rikku who had lost. "Ruf dra sekrdo ryja vymmah. (How the mighty have fallen.)"

"Clnaf oui!(Screw you!)" Rikku hissed with a kick to the shin in response, causing Brother to clutch his knee in pain. Who wouldn't feel pain from a platform shoe connecting to your shin with so much force?

"When you said that they don't get along, you weren't kidding." Tristan said aside to Buddy.

"We're going to Besaid, Kaiba!" Rikku glared.

"We are going to Guadosalam, and that's final!" Kaiba as he walked away from Rikku. "Deal with it…"

"'We're going to Besaid or else!"

"Or else what…"

"Or else…You'll never see your deck again!" Rikku says with a smirk as she holds a deck in her hands.

"What are you talking about you fool…" Kaiba dug into his pocket, much to his shock, it wasn't in there. He then narrows his eyes. "Give it to me, Rikku or I'll-"

"I'm sorry, but you're not in any position to make threats." Rikku says as she now goes to shuffle his deck. "How's about we go to Besaid, that is if it's okay with you, Kaiba-Boy!"

Calling him "Kaiba-Boy!" only made Kaiba angrier. "I told you we're not going to-!"

"I see two Blue Eyes White Dragons…" Rikku says as she looks through Kaiba's deck. "Hmm…they're a lot different than the art of my Blue Eyes." She acknowledges. (A/N: Rikku's Blue Eyes had the BEWD art from Starter Evolution Deck Kaiba/LOB Blue Eyes Booster Pack, While Kaiba's have the Starter Deck Kaiba art.) "Hmm…all I happen to find is two Blue Eyes…aside from the one you took from me…"

Kaiba was beginning to sweat bullets as Rikku continued to search for Kaiba's third Blue Eyes! He saw the smirks on Joey and Tristan's faces, knowing that they were enjoying every minute of it. Oh how he wanted to wipe those smirks off of their faces in the most painful way possible.

"RIKKU!" Brother roared. "As Leader of the Gullwings I order you to give Kaiba's deck back to him at once!"

"But…" Rikku complained.

"I think your leader just gave you an order…" Kaiba smirked. "Now give me back my deck!"

Rikku sighed as she reluctantly gave Kaiba back his deck.

"Now, as leader I decided that we're going to go to Besaid first to see Yuna! Then we'll go to Guadosalam!

"WHAT!?" Kaiba snapped.

"Sounds good to me!" Rikku chirped, seeing that Kaiba didn't get his way after all.

Tea, on the lift, over heard Kaiba's outburst from below. Probably over something trivial, she figured.

"Alright, now that we got our destinations fixed, how 'bout we see Tea?" Tea overheard that voice as her eyes widened in excitement, it was Joey's. Could they possibly be here? Even though it didn't take that long for the lift to reach the cabin level, it felt as if it was taking an eternity to reach to the cabin level. She just had to find out!

"Or else, we'll have to deal with Kaiba throwing a fit." Another voice said. That time it was Tristan's.

"Silence, you shark-headed monkey!" Responded Kaiba's voice as the lift has reached down.

Everyone looked at the door as it opened. After seeing who was inside, Yugi and co made a run for it for Tea. Much to Kaiba's annoyance.

"GUYS!"

"TEA!"

The now-reunited gang ran towards each other. However, they may have been too excited of being together again as they didn't notice a few machina parts on the floor which caused them to trip over and fall into a huge pile.

"Hmph…the geeks really are back together again." Kaiba snickered as Brother was somewhat pissed.

"SHINRA!" He roared as the young Al-Bhed boy walked out of the cabin into the halls.

"Yes?" He responded.

"You left your parts on the floor, causing our guests to trip and possibly hurt themselves!" Brother pointed to fallen Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Serenity, Bakura, and Tea who appeared to have injured themselves on the machina parts. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Umm…I'm just a kid?" Shinra responded naturally.

I apologize for ending it right there, truth is that I'm not exactly the best good at writing reunion parts, so I had it end right there. Don't worry, next chapter will be better.

Next Chapter: Kaiba finally gets what he wants as they go to Guadosalam for one thing: To take back the Transphere. Also, Yuna returns, but unfortunately so does…take a guess. And Rikku finally visits the Farplane (For Real this time, no more hiding behind a Commsphere.)

Preview:

"So…why are we going to Guadosalam?" Joey asked, annoyed as the gang was looking through the spheres the Gullwings have found.

"Kaiba said something about the LeBlanc syndicate stealing his updated Transphere." Rikku explained, "Whatever that is!"

"You mean to tell me that Kaiba made a new and improved Transphere without tellin' us!" Joey snapped as he threw his hands up in frustration, consequently tossing one of the spheres in the air.

"Hey!" Yuna jumped up and caught it before it could hit the floor. "Careful!"

"Sorry…"

Rikku asked Tea. "Does he always get this peeved?"

"When it comes to Kaiba, sadly yes." Tea said.

"Speaking of which, where is Setty Kaiby anyway?" Rikku looked around.

"Who knows…" Tristan shrugged.

"Who cares…" Joey scoffed.

"Well…somebody has to…" Yugi reminded.

"And Mokuba does!" Serenity added.

Chapter 11: To Chateau LeBlanc! Rikku Visits The Farplane!