Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Return of Noah ❯ Faint Memories of the Past ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter Three - Faint Memories of the Past
out the following week Ren helped Noah to recover each and every part of his senses that he hadn't used for quite some time.

"This dinner is great Mrs. Narrow," said Noah as he ate the delicious meal on his plate. "No one makes turkey and mash potatoes like you do."

"Oh...Why thank you Noah." She said flattered. "Would you like some more turkey?"

"Nah, I couldn't eat another bite," Noah said as he rubbed his stomach. "I'm so full as it is."

"Then I'm guessing you won't want any dessert." She said with a grin.
's eyes got huge as he sat up straight.

"Yeah. Mom made Chocolate pie." Ren said with a smile. "It's absolutely delicious."

"It is?" Noah said as his mouth began to water. "On second thought, maybe I could have just a little desert."
dinner Ren and Noah would normally head off to their rooms to get ready for bed, but that night Noah had something on his mind.

"Huh?" Almost instantly after hearing a knock at the door Noah came into Ren's room.
"What's wrong?" Ren asked as Noah sat on Ren's bed.

"I don't know it's just...I really wanna know how my virtual world was destroyed."

"Oh...Well your guess is about as good as mine. There's no telling how exactly it was destroyed."
got up from her chair by her desk and handed Noah an invitation to a competition.

"What's this?" Noah asked as he began looking over the invitation.

"Perhaps this will get your mind off the virtual world." Ren said as she pointed to the invite. "You like duel monsters?"

"Yeah, but how did you know?" Noah asked.

"I figured you might since most people do." Ren said with a smile. "It's probably one of the biggest games to hit the planet."
then took out a deck and placed it in his hand.

"Is this your deck?" Noah asked as he set the invitation down and looked through the cards.

"Yep, I have a whole bunch of cards that I don't use in my deck that you could use if you want."

"Thank's Ren, you've been a big help to me." Noah said as he looked up at her. "Without you I don't know what might of happened to me."

"Hey what are friends for." Ren said with a light smile.
only down side to this whole resurrecting thing was that Ren would have to marry Noah some day. Ren figured it was all for the best. And at least now her father would have someone to take over the company. And besides, the only guy she'd ever consider marrying besides Noah would have been Brian.

"Ren, Ren!" Yelled Noah as he tried to shake her out of her train of thought. "Are you okay?"

"Wah...Oh! Yeah, of course." Ren said as she blinked a few times before looking back at Noah. "What were you saying?"

"I was asking you what you favorite card is." Noah said as he kept thumbing through Ren's cards.

"Oh that's easy, my absolute favorite is Kiryu." Ren said as she grabbed the cards from Noah's hands. She thumbed through each one quickly and then showed him the card with the picture of a red dragon.

"That cards cool, but it's nothing compared to my favorite card." Noah said with a grin. "Shinato is a way cooler card, and it has an attack of 3200."

"Oh yeah, but you still have to use a magic card in order to summon it because it's a ritual card."

"I know that..but it's still an awesome card."

"Well if you like it so much." Ren said walking to her closet and pulling out a large box. "Then why don't you add it to you deck."
opened the box and gasped in surprise.

"Cool, you have almost every card in the game." Noah said as he began looking through rows and rows of organized cards.

"Yeah, well I guess I get a little carried away when I go shopping for cards, but at least now I know there going to someone who can use em'."
Friday was the day of the tournament, and now that Noah now had a deck the only thing they needed to do was fly a helicopter off to the location of where the tournament was being held.

"Can I look at your deck now Noah?" Ren asked anxiously.

"Hang on, let me get it out." Noah said as he reached for his deck inside his bag.
had agreed not to look at Noah's cards until one hour before they'd arrive at the city where the tournament would be held.
handed her the deck and Ren began looking at each card intently.

"Hmm, lets see." Ren said as she looked wide eyed at each card. "You have Card of Sanctity, that's a good one. Pot of Greed, Shinato, obviously, Dark Hole, Dark Blade, Giant Soldier of Stone -

"Give me that." Noah said as he tried grabbing the deck from Ren.

"No wait I haven't finished yet." Ren said as she dodged his attempt to get the deck.
's father who was located at the far end of the helicopter eyed them both for a moment and Noah calmed down immediately.

"Okay fine." Noah said with a sigh. "But please be more quiet, don't say the names of every card."
an hour later the chopper landed about a mile away from the tournament building and a limo was parked just outside the lot waiting for Ren and the others.
they came near the tournament building Ren and Noah both blinked as they looked at a large white dome.

"Don't look so surprised." Ren's father said with a laugh. "After all this tournament is hosted by Kaiba Corp."

"What?" Noah said as he gasped.

"You mean Seto Kaiba? Didn't I meet him once when I was younger?" Ren asked her father.

"Yep. Him and his little brother." Her father said with a smile as the car parked. "At the time he had just began his company with the virtual reality programs and such, he was only thirteen, but he had a lot of skill."

"Yeah, I remember. His brother was really sweet, but he was....well he just wasn't as nice."
father began laughing as he got out of the limo.

"Oh, but I'm sure he's much nicer now Ren." Her father said as he began walking towards the dome.

"I hope your right." Ren said as her and Noah began following her father.

"Wait Ren." Noah said from behind her. "Seto Kaiba...is he in anyway related to my father?"

"What? Nah I doubt that." Ren said with a laugh. "He'd have to be a cousin or a brother of yours."

"But I don't remember any of my cousins being my age." Noah said as they got closer to the white dome. "And I don't remember having a brother."

"See..So the only logical thing is that he has the exact same last name as you." Ren said with a smile. "Of course as far as anyone knows, for now your known as Noah Narrow, at least until were you know what."
blushed as he slightly smiled. "Then we'll both go by the name Kaiba."
"Yeah...Then instead of Narrow Tech the company might even change to Kaiba Tech, who really knows. But anyways, we should really hurry, my watch says 2:56 and the tournament starts at three so we'd better hurry inside."

"Right!" Noah said. And they both ran as fast as they could into the dome.

"Welcome fellow duelist to the third annual duel tournament of Battle City."
a top balcony in the dome a tall figure stood with a duel disk around his left arm and his deck in his right hand.

"There's Kaiba," Ren told her father as her, him, and Noah stood on the bottom floor of the dome where hundreds of other duelists listen in on what the rules were.

"There's a reason why this time my tournament is inside a building." Kaiba said as everyone looked at the screen that was now projecting his face. "You will begin at the first floor. You will work your way up to getting to the second, dueling other duelist and winning key cards that act as a point system. When you've gotten five cards you will go up to the second floor. By having these five key cards you will be able to go through the doors that open to the stairway that leads to the third floor. Once again you will have to win five more cards from other duelists. Then once you've made it to the fourth and final floor you will enter the finals. These finals will pit eight people against each other and only one duelist will win and become the champion, so now that the rules have been said I will assume you all know what to do. SO LET THE TOURNAMENT BEGIN!"
Ren began making her way up to the fourth floor so did Noah, and together they both made their way to the finals.

"Hey Seto." Mokuba said as he turned to Seto who was walking towards the finalist room. "Isn't that Ren, you know the daughter of the guy who runs Narrow Tech."

"Huh," Kaiba only glanced for a second in her direction and then turned towards Mokuba. "Heh, it's been a long time since we've seen her, I wonder if she'll make it through the finals."

"Seto Kaiba." Said a voice from behind Kaiba. "It's so good to see you."

"Mr. Narrow." Kaiba said as he shook the man's hand. "It's been a long time."

"Yeah, almost five years." Kaiba said not even smiling.

"Look how much you've grown. I've heard of your great progress in the business."

"It has it's ups and downs."

"Ah ha ha, Seto, always a kidder. Oh and Mokuba, I'm sorry , how are you?"

"I'm doing good. Are you guys coming over to our house again?"

"Oh...well...actually the only reason I came here was to take Ren to the tournament."

"Yeah I saw." Kaiba said as gave a light grin. "I was surprised to see her skill has improved since the last time we dueled when we were kids."

"Yes, she is quite the duelist. She's won a few tournaments back at home and is become quite the strategist."

"Really." Kaiba grinned. "How would you feel about having dinner at my house this evening."

"Oh I wouldn't want to impose." Mr. Narrow said quickly.

"What do you mean impose, you guys should stay with us for at least the weekend." Mokuba said with a smile. "Ren was really nice to me the last time we hung out together. Please Seto can they stay, just for the weekend."

"Of course."

"Well, I don't know about me staying for the weekend, but I'm sure Ren would love to stay."

"Awesome, then we can hangout all week." Mokuba said excitedly.
winning the first round of the finals there were only four duelist left.

"Hey Ren, do you know these guys?" Noah asked.

"Yeah, that ones Yugi Moto." Ren said pointing to a spiky haired short kid. "He's the best duelist in the world, or so I've heard."

"And what about the tall guy with the blond hair?"

"That's Joey Wheeler, he's probably the fourth of the best of duelist. Second is Seto and third is a guy name Marik Ishtar."
duel against Ren verses Yugi began and for a while it seemed as though Ren was winning, but suddenly, just before Ren was going to play her big strategy, Yugi played a trap card and then a monster card, and then before Ren knew it the duel was over and Yugi was the victor.
however had a little more trouble in the beginning. Trying to avoid Joey's magic cards and deal with his Jinzo made it seem to Noah as though the duel couldn't be won, but suddenly Noah drew Dark Hole, destroyed Jinzo, and used one of his strategies to over power Joey and win the duel.the match was Noah vs. Yugi in a battle to see who would be crowned champion.
began his move by playing Gama the Magnet warrior in def mode and a trap face down. Noah then used Pot of Greed to draw two cards and summoned Giant Soldier of Stone in defense mode.rest of the match was played out as Yugi striking, then Noah, then Yugi, and so on.
had been viewing the battle and knew all to well who would be the victor of the duel. But still this duelist seemed to have quite a bit of skill. At least he must have if he had stayed in the duel this long.
had only 300 life points left and no monsters on the field. Things were looking bad for him. And on top of that it was Yugi's turn.

"Dark Paladin attack his life points directly!" Yugi yelled as his monster delivered the final attack.
winning Yugi and Joey both headed to the bottom floor to claim Yugi's prize and out of curiosity of what the prize was, both Ren and Noah followed them to the bottom floor.

"That was a good game, I was honored to duel with the famous Yugi Moto." Noah said as he held out a hand to Yugi.

"As was I. I hope we can duel again sometime."

"Of course he can!" Ren said as she walked up to Yugi. "Hi, I'm Ren Narrow."

"Hey Yug, we gotta go." Joey said as he walked towards Yugi and the others. "Did you say you're Ren Narrow?"

"Yeah, and your Joey Wheeler." Ren said with a smile.

"You wouldn't happen to be the daughter of the guy who runs the technology company called Narrow Tech are you?"

"That's right the one and only."

"Whoa that's awesome, that company makes the coolest stuff for the government."

"Yeah, and who'd of thought she was such a good duelist too." Yugi said with a friendly smile.

"Oh stop it, I'm not that good. So Yugi, what prize did ya get?"

"I don't know yet, Kaiba's suppose to hand it to me. He said for the winner to wait at the bottom floor after the duel was won, but I've been here for almost five minutes and I'm getting a bit tired of waiting."

"I hope that doesn't mean you're going home without your prize." A tall figure walked into the room, revealing himself to be none other then Seto Kaiba. And just behind him, Ren's father and Mokuba.

"Alright Kaiba, where's the prize you promised Yugi?" Joey asked angrily.

"Why does it matter to you?" Kaiba said as he walked up to Yugi. "For winning my tournament, predictably once again, I am to give you this special card."
handed Yugi a card placed face down and as Yugi turn it over he gasped at the beauty and stats of the card.

"This one of a kind card is one in one. No other has been made like it and no other will be made like it. It's stats are powerful and it has an unbeatable effect."

"But why are you giving it away?" Yugi asked as he looked at the card with a picture of a white griffin.

"I'm not giving it away, you earned it, besides it's not mine to keep." Seto said aloud. He then turned towards the door, but then suddenly looked back at Yugi. "And if I were you Yugi, I'd definitely consider adding it to my deck."
then began walking slowly out the exit towards his limo, Mokuba running after him with a silver briefcase.

"Hello sweety, did you have fun at the tournament?" Ren's father asked her.

"Of course." Ren said happily. "But I think Noah had even more fun, he made it to the third round of the finals."

"Is that so. Noah you better be careful or your going to be an even better president then I am."

"Excuse me sir." Joey said as he walked towards Mr. Narrow. "Are you president of Narrow Tech?"

"Yes."

"Then it is true. Your company makes the coolest stuff!"

"Ah ha ha. That's good news to hear. I always considered my job one of the best there is."

"Oh totally! My name's Joey Wheeler and this here's my friend Yugi Moto."

"Wow, Yugi Moto. The world famous duelist. Seto says you have quite a lot of skill."

"Oh thanks, I didn't know you knew Kaiba."

"Oh yes we go back quite a few years from when he was younger. And speaking of which, Ren, Seto invited us to a dinner at his house, they'd also like you to stay for the weekend would that be alright?"

"Sure, but what about Noah?" Ren asked.

"Oh don't worry. Noah this will be a perfect time for you to learn more about my company and how it works. So you will fly back in the helicopter with me and we'll be back to pick up Ren on Monday morning."
only shrugged as he looked at Ren and then her father.

"Well I have to go," Ren said to Yugi and Joey. "I hope we can duel again real soon."

"Yeah same here." Joey said as him and Yugi turned towards the door.

"Sure." Yugi said. "See ya."