Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Trials of Life ❯ Chance Meetings ( Chapter 7 )

Chance Meetings

AN: I'm having fun writing this fic.

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If no one objects, next chapter I'll change the genre to angst/romance. I know I've said this plenty of times, but I wanted to give people plenty of time to read the announcement.

~*~*~*~Last time~*~*~*~

Yugi grinned. They were going to have fun. It was time for a little pay back for the pain that they'd caused him a couple of years ago. His old friend weren't going to know what hit them.

~*~*~*~On with the story~*~*~*~

Yugi smiled as he looked around the apartment Selene had managed to get for them for their stay. It was a bit larger, and definitely fancier, than the last one they'd stayed in on a mission. That apartment had been chosen by Jake and to say the least it sucked big time.

"Hey, Hikari," Damien called from the kitchen. Yugi walked over there and saw the other members of his team sitting around the table. "We were wondering if you would like to go to the arcade or a movie or something since we don't have to start our mission till tomorrow."

Yugi smiled, "Yeah, let's go to the arcade. I'd rather not have a repeat of what happened last time we took these three," he gestured to Jake, Derek, and Jason, "to a movie. I swear no one could hear the actual movie over you three."

Yugi, Selene, and Damien grinned as the three others blushed.

"Hey, it was Jake that started it, not me." Jason said.

"Yeah, neither of us started it." Derek added.

"Well, you didn't exactly object now did you?" Selene said, still grinning the cat that caught the canary grin.

"I sure as hell didn't hear any objections from either of you." Yugi said, joining his best friend in her teasing.

"Nor me. Quite the contrary in fact. It sounded like you sincerely enjoyed it." Damien said, his grin matching Selene's and Yugi's easily.

"Lets just go to the damn arcade." Derek said, trying to avoid more teasing. He got lucky, his other friends were feeling generous today. Usually he wouldn't get off that easily.

"Okay then." Yugi said, and they head off to the arcade, unable to know that that simple decision would yet again lead to a change in their lives forever.

~*~*~

It had been nearly two long years since Yugi had left, yet Yami never stopped thinking about his hikari. Not a day had passed that Yami hadn't shed tears of regret. He often times wished he could turn back time to try and correct his mistake. If he could've he would've made sure that Yugi was never alone. But these were just wishes he knew would never, could never, come true. For all he knew, Yugi was gone forever.

Jonouchi and everyone else did all they could to try and cheer him up, but it never worked. But hey, who ever said any of them were about to give up. It was just that incentive that had brought them out to the arcade that particular afternoon. Unknown to anyone there, fate had something up her sleeve and the dice were about to be cast.

"Come on Yami, let's watch Jonouchi and Honda pulverize each other in the racing game." Anzu said, pulling the reluctant pharaoh along.

They watched Jonouchi and Honda play when, just as the third game finished, they heard some teenagers talking behind them.

"Hey, did you see the chick playing on DDR? She's kicking ass, so far no one here has beat her. And she lets them choose the songs too!" said one boy.

"Whoa, awesome. She's gotta be amazing. Probably better than the last champion Anzu. Let's go check her out." And with that the two teenage boys ran over to the DDR machine, where a large crowd had already gathered.

"Hey guys, let's go check out who's playing the DDR machine." Anzu said. Truth be told, each of them was curious who this girl the boys were talking about was.

As they got nearer they saw that the girl had just taken on a new person and both were dancing to a past-paced American song. When they could finally see the players they were shocked speechless. Both were people they hadn't seen for two years. First they saw the girl, as she was closest to them, and they immediately recognized her tan hair and green eyes as belonging to the person who had coldly told them about the life of their best friend, one face they could never forget, Selene Chousen. Her opponent, however, shocked them the most by far. They saw the spiky tri-colored hair that only belonged to two people, one of whom was standing right beside them. The other was the friend that they'd lost two years ago. The other was none other that Yugi Mutou.

~*~*~Earlier~*~*~

Yugi and everyone had just arrived at the arcade when they heard a man challenging anyone to a game of DDR. Yugi gulped and look at Selene, his suspicions proving right when he saw the glint in her eyes. She just couldn't resist a challenge.

Yugi snorted at that thought. `Challenge my ass. So far I've been the only one who's ever been able to beat her at anything period. This guy has no chance.' And indeed he was right because when their scored came up Selene had gotten an A and the other guy had gotten and F. Selene challenged several other people, though the results stayed the same and by this time they had gotten quite a crowd. Finally she turned to Yugi.

"C'mon Hikari, dance. You're the only one here who could possibly challenge me and you know it." She said, and Yugi blushed at the compliment. He sighed and walked up onto the platform.

"Who picks?" he asked. They usually took turns picking as they could both dance to any style thrown at them. After all, they'd been practicing since Selene, Damien, Jake, Jason, and Derek had somehow gotten him on this thing for the first time and they had found out that, out of the five of them, only he could match Selene step-for-step

"You pick, I picked last time." Selene said, and Yugi picked out one of their favorites. It was an extremely fast paced American song that most people couldn't keep up with. They liked it because, when they were facing each other, it challenged them to not only keep up with the music but also with each other like no other song could.

As the music started they both started dancing like they hadn't a care in the world, neither noticing the addition of four familiar faces to the crowd. Though Damien and the other did notice and kept a close eye on them. When the music stopped both Selene and Yugi were panting and sweating slightly. The game turned out to be a draw and they high-fived each other in congratulations. When Yugi look back toward his other friends he suddenly caught the eyes of a very familiar face, a face that belonged to the man he had once fallen in love with.

As hard violet eyes met dark scarlet time seemed to stop.

TBC…..

AN: I bet you all just hated that end to a chapter didn't you. Though the confrontation won't be happening till either the next chapter or the one after just because that's the way I want things to happen. You'll understand later, hopefully. But on the good side, the revenge will start at the same time. This is just basically a bridge to show how they first see each other again.

I wanted to be different so I didn't make them first see each other again at school like most others do. Though you may see some similarities as it's difficult not to when I read so many like my own. Sorry to any of those whose ideas I may have used without realizing it.

DDR, or Dance Dance Revolution, is an arcade game where two people stand on two separate platforms and move their feet on the different arrows as the screen in front of them shows them where to go. Depending on how you do the machine will either insult or compliment you. This game is first seen in the YGO series on the episode where Yami and Anzu go to an arcade and Anzu challenges Johnny Steps, who was at the time the best.

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