I was walking home with Yugi when we saw a guy carrying a body bag over his shoulder.
I gasped. "Miho!" I took off, Yugi hot on my heels.
"Wait up!"
At the warehouse…
"Stop it!" Yugi shouted.
"Yugi! Naru! Why are you here!?" Tristan demanded.
"I was worried about Haiyama…So we followed after Kujirada." He answered. "But this is how it is… Haiyama! This is wrong!"
I nodded and prepared to push Yugi out of the way.
"You saw me during feeding time didn't you?" Haiyama asked. He lowered his whip and lifted a silver digital pet device. "Oh right! This childish game! Let me return it." He threw it and it landed next to Kujirada.
"Haiyama!" Yugi shouted and ran forward. I ran forward.
"You shouldn't have been looking around!" Haiyama yelled and swung his whip. I pushed Yugi out of the way in time to receive the hit.
I screamed in pain as I was flung backward into boxes.
"Naru!" Yugi and Tristan shouted.
"What fools. Completely worthless as a pet." Haiyama said. Tristan grew angry and ran toward Haiyama.
"You Bastard!" He yelled and dodged the whip attacks. But his lack of sleep finally kicked in and got hit. "Why must the damage of staying up all night affect me now?" He asked. His head fell down. "Sleepy…"
I struggled to get up.
"Finished already Tristan?" Haiyama asked him. "Tristan?" Tristan wasn't moving. "Hey! I'm talking to you Tristan!" Yugi stood up. "Tristan… actually I was getting bored of Kujirada. Won't you be my pet? That's why I called you."
Tristan got up. "you Bastard…"
"It's fun once you get used to it." He continued. I made to stand but fell on my knees. I coughed and felt something wet on my hand. Blood. "The lifestyle of a pet. And for your feed…" He trailed off, swung the whip at Miho knocking the blue bow off her uniform. Yugi gasped and Tristan stood.
"What do you think?" Haiyama asked.
"Haiyama…you're the only one I'll never forgive!" Tristan growled.
"A pet shouldn't look at his master like that!" Haiyama scolded attacking Tristan with the whip.
"T-Tristan!" I shouted but ended up coughing. Tristan fell to the ground, knocked out.
"What a fool." Haiyama muttered. "But that's fine. Raising a resistant pet should be fun." I noticed glowing and looked at Yugi. Blood trailing out of my mouth and covering my hand. I watched as Yugi transformed into Yami.
"Yugi!" Haiyama gasped. I smiled weakly and forced myself to stand. I used the wall for balance.
"Now… It's game time." Yami said smiling. 'Still so cool!'
"What!?" Haiyama exclaimed.
"Haiyama. Why don't you have your pet fight my pet?" Yami asked and grabbed the silver digital pet device Yugi gave Haiyama and connected it to his blue one. Behind him was a giant version of Yu-2. And behind Haiyama was a giant… was that a blue worm?
Haiyama smiled. "Sounds interesting! I love this kind of thing! Go! Eat that loser!"
"Loser!?" Yami exclaimed angrily.
Note to self. Don't call Yami a loser unless you want to be eaten by a giant Yu-2
I watched in awe as the two fought. Haiyama laughed.
"Such a weak loser is no match!" I glared and coughed.
"Oi! He's… no loser!" I coughed. Yami saw the blood on my hands and face and grew angry. But kept a calm expression.
"It's ok… this loser… can beat you." Yami looked at Yu-2 and he nodded. Yu-2 charged at the other pet.
"The outcome is the same no matter how many times you try!" Haiyama yelled. The worm grabbed Yu-2 with its claws and prepared to swallow it.
"Yu-2!" I shouted and fought back a cough.
Just then the device started beeping and I relaxed, Yami smiled and Haiyama gasped.
"What!?"
"The effect of the data exchange has appeared." Yami explained. "This is the sound it makes when a Digital Pet evolves."
"What? Evolves!?"
"The change caused by Joe's and Rion's data has appeared." Yami told Haiyama. I watched as Yu-2 evolved.
"What!? I sense great energy!" Haiyama exclaimed. Yu-2 charged and punched the worm/frog thing. I pumped a fist in the air painfully.
"Take that!"
"What!? Get up!" Haiyama ordered his pet. It didn't move so he began to hit it with his whip.
"Haiyama. This match is over." Yami said.
"Not yet!" He said and continued whipping his pet. It roared. "Alright, that's it."
The pet got up and faced Haiyama. "ROAR!"
"Stop! I raised you!" He shouted.
"The door of Darkness opens." I watched a bit freaked out as the pet devoured Haiyama.
"Pets are free to choose who they point their fangs at." He said. "You forgot that, so you lose." He then walked over to me. I blinked at him.
"What?"
He then wiped the blood off my mouth with his sleeve. "You shouldn't have taken that blow." He told me.
"If I didn't you'd be the one bleeding right now." I looked up in thought. "Actually you would just be in pain."
"Still… don't go putting yourself in danger like that." He said. His normally cold Crimson eyes filled with warmth. I blinked in surprise.
"Fine…" I sighed but then realized something. He was a head taller than me! "We should go and help Miho and Tristan." Just then Haiyama screamed. I looked at him.
"There's more to pets than just food and whips…" I began. "You got to treat them with love and care. You failed to realize that, and he gave you your fate." We looked at Miho who was on top of Tristan.
"Let's go to Australia together Mama…" Miho mumbled in her sleep.
"What to do, what to do." I said to myself pacing in the room Grandpa and Yugi are letting me use. "I can't just tell them, Hey guys Guess what? You're all anime and manga characters in the world I come from. Can we still be friends?" I grumbled. "Pshh Yeah right. Like that would go over well." I collapsed on my bed unaware of someone eavesdropping.
"I don't like lying to them! Though technically I'm not lying. I just… never told them where I came from. And I do know the future, just… theirs." I sighed and rolled onto my side hugging the blue pillow. "What am I supposed to do once Kaiba appears? That's where he tries to steal Blue-Eyes and the Duelist Kingdom begins. Death-T to. But then there's Battle City, And Marik and Bakura to worry about. Why is everything so complicated!"